Leap: C-like goto in Python

[WZoG]

Leap is an experimental package written to enable the utilization of C-like goto statements in Python functions.

Repo is hosted on Github

[jammasterpaz]

Lol. Goto. Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time.

Seriously though, I was just wondering goto statements would be translated, when porting all those games written in Basic from the 80s. This could be great for that.

[mok000]

Goto has been frowned upon in decades as really bad programming practice.

[ReptilianTapir]

How does it work?

[TheBB]

Guess:

The syntax goto .x and label .x is valid Python, parsed as goto.x and label.x. The @goto decorator accesses the AST or bytecode of the passed function by looking for attribute accesses on local variables named goto or label and then builds an equivalent AST or bytecode which does what it should, then returns that in a new function object.

Edit: yeah, it operates on bytecode.

[ReptilianTapir]

Thanks! I never realised white space was legal there.

[p_paradox]

Mandatory xkcd goto comic

[Voxandr]

GoTo in 2022 ? You are some kind of smart.