David Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> range statements, the example doesn't work. > > Given that the beginning and ending values for the inner range > statement are the same, the inner range statement will never be Is your question about the semantics of for else blocks or about the suitability of the algorithm given in the example? The for else block is behaving exactly as expected... >>> range(1,1) [] >>> range(500,500) [] >>> see http://groups- beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/d6c084e791a00 2f4?q=for+else&hl=en& for a good explanation of when the else part of the loop is executed. Basically, whenever the loop is exited normally, which is what happens when you iterate over an empty list like the one returned by range(1,1) max -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
