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With or without my patch, bare "raise" inside a "finally" statement
raises a "RuntimeError: no active exception to re-raise". (except, of
course, when the try/finally is itself enclosed in an except block)
That's because a finally block is not considered an exception handler. I
don't think there's any reason to change this.
I'm not for adding syntax errors. After all the bare "raise" statement
just does the moral equivalent of re-raising sys.exc_info() verbatim. In
those situations where sys.exc_info() would return a non-empty result,
why shouldn't "raise" be accepted as well?