Not sure I believe the benefit of this approach outweighs the added difficulty wrt testing, but I certainly agree that Python needs a yikes keyword :-)
> What is the benefit of such a yikes? Or do you consider it a yikes language as a whole?
None, it was just a simple joke based on the typo in the post I replied to. I like Python, and have in fact been happily using it as my main language for over 20 years.