The equivalent of a GOTO in python [duplicate]

Answer 1

Disclaimer: I have been exposed to a significant amount of F77

The modern equivalent of goto (arguable, only my opinion, etc) is explicit exception handling:

Edited to highlight the code reuse better.

Pretend pseudocode in a fake python-like language with goto:

def myfunc1(x)
    if x == 0:
        goto LABEL1
    return 1/x

def myfunc2(z)
    if z == 0:
        goto LABEL1
    return 1/z

myfunc1(0) 
myfunc2(0)

:LABEL1
print 'Cannot divide by zero'.

Compared to python:

def myfunc1(x):
    return 1/x

def myfunc2(y):
    return 1/y


try:
    myfunc1(0)
    myfunc2(0)
except ZeroDivisionError:
    print 'Cannot divide by zero'

Explicit named exceptions are a significantly better way to deal with non-linear conditional branching.