“use of `continue` for control flow is discouraged”

This comment caught my attention:

https://github.com/scikit-agent/scikit-agent/pull/19#discussion_r2112768829

use of continue for control flow is discouraged.

Is it?

I see Guido cautions against using continue in a finally block in https://peps.python.org/pep-0008/:

Use of the flow control statements return/break/continue within the finally suite of a try...finally, where the flow control statement would jump outside the finally suite, is discouraged. This is because such statements will implicitly cancel any active exception that is propagating through the finally suite…

I haven’t found any style guides discouraging it in general though. Google’s doesn’t mention it: https://google.github.io/styleguide/pyguide.html. Glancing (and ⌘-F-ing) through https://docs.python-guide.org/writing/style/, I don’t see anything either.

Do you have a strong opinion on this?

Here’s a non-definitive discussion on Stack Overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13692293/is-continue-bad-practice

I appreciate the Doug Crawford quote but don’t find this article convincing myself either: https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/programming/avoid-continue.html.

If a reviewer asked me to take it out or if the project style guide mandated it (especially if given a rationale beyond general practice… which it’s not?), I’d be happy to try to oblige, but I think I’ll continue using it in my own stuff. Eh, eh.