I'm really glad that Олег Комлев has posted this suggestion to the list. Thank you!
I found myself using this construction, and in December 2019 (that seems a long time ago) I discussed it face-to-face with Paul Piwek. He found this highly relevant article https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9979970/why-does-python-use-else-after-for-and-while-loops Here's a brief (and selective) summary of this SO page. The question was asked in 2012. The original poster wrote "No matter how I think about it, my brain can't progress seamlessly from the for statement to the else block." One of the answers references a talk by Raymond Hettinger, which "briefly addresses the history of for ... else". He attributes the concept to Don Knuth, and says that if Guido was thinking about the future he (GvR) would have called it no_break instead of else, so everyone would know what it did. I highly recommend that you watch RH's talk, 15:50 to 19:00 (min:sec). Transforming Code into Beautiful, Idiomatic Python https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSGv2VnC0go&feature=youtu.be&t=950 The Stackoverflow page also references a summary of earlier discussions that Steven D'Aprano kindly prepared and posted to this list (in 2009). https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2009-October/006155.html That's the end of my SO summary. In addition, there's Don Knuth's paper Structured Programming with goto statements (1974) Reprinted in https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/lp.html By the way, I happen to have a copy of this book (typeset by TeX, of course) and have more than once read the 1974 goto paper. (There we go. A loop with a break.) If you don't have ready access to a copy, you might like to look at http://people.cs.pitt.edu/~zhangyt/teaching/cs1621/goto.slides.pdf http://www.kohala.com/start/papers.others/knuth.dec74.html I think that's enough for now. And thank you again Олег, for posting your suggestion to the list. -- Jonathan
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