adding goto to Python

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I would consider any code containing a 'goto' .bad' code, but that's me
I have a lot of embedded code out there that runs perfectly fine without.

now days we understand that.

i would still keep goto in C but never add it to Python. i'm not so sure about Pike. i would consider restricting it in C and Pike to only go down, never go up. that or add raise, somehow. i remember reading such a suggestion (goto going up should be flagged as an error) for Fortran way back in a book published in the 1960s (read it in 1972). i have used goto as an error collector in a few C programs where i didn't want to make a 2nd level function. but raise eliminates any such need in Python. too bad C didn't come with a builtin standard equivalent to raise.