Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Ron Adam wrote: >> True, but I think this is considerably less clear. The current for-else >> is IMHO is reversed to how the else is used in an if statement. >nope. else works in exactly the same way for all statements that >support it: if the controlling expression is false, run the else suite >and leave the statement.
For example, consider the behaviour of: condition = False if condition: print "true" else: print "false" and condition = False while condition: print "true" break else: print "false" >From this, it's clear that while/else gets its semantics from if/else. Then: i = 0 while i < 10: print i i += 1 else: print "Done!" for i in range(10): print i else: print "Done!" So for/else behaves while/else, hence for/else really is the same way round as if/else. It may not be "intuitive", but it's consistent, and personally I'd rather have that. -- \S -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.chaos.org.uk/~sion/ ___ | "Frankly I have no feelings towards penguins one way or the other" \X/ | -- Arthur C. Clarke her nu becomež se bera eadward ofdun hlęddre heafdes bęce bump bump bump
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