On Mon, 10 Oct 2022 at 03:22, Avi Gross <avi.e.gr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Smallest code blocks first may be a more modern invention. > > Some would argue for a rule related to efficiency of execution. When you > have multiple blocks as in an if-else or case statement with multiple > choices, that you order the most common cases first. Those shorten > execution more often than the rarer cases especially the ones that should > never happen. >
Seems fairly dubious and full of special-cases. If you want to follow that rule, it should be easy enough to still permit for-else clauses. It's an extremely weak argument against for-else. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
