Goto considered dramafull

I do not wish to start any drama nor religious wars.  I'm just struck by
the number of places in python.c where the same cleanup-on-error stanzas of
free()s / DECREF's and other code occur a number of times in one routine.
It makes one nervous whether they all are *correctly* duplicated.

One accepted answer is just to repeat each group of lines ad nauseum, as
needed, even if needed 6 times in one routine.  (!)

Another answer is to consolidate into one stanza reached by multiple
goto's.  All necessary free()s/DECREF's/etc. collected together.  But
that's "goto", consider by some worse than GMO brocolli.

As a data point, I find "goto" used a number of times in FF already:
    mainline  155
    gdraw      11
    gutils     74
as well as in of course GNUlib and other friends.

Y'all have an absolute aversion to "goto" ?

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