On 2022-10-10, Calvin Spealman <cspea...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 8, 2022 at 5:35 PM rbowman <bow...@montana.com> wrote: >> On 10/7/22 21:32, Axy wrote: >> > So, seriously, why they needed else if the following pieces produce same >> > result? Does anyone know or remember their motivation? >> >> In real scenarios there would be more logic in the for block that would >> meet a condition and break out of the loop. If the condition is never >> met, the else block runs. To steal from w3schools: >> >> >> fruits = ["apple", "peach", "cherry"] >> for x in fruits: >> print(x) >> if x == "banana": >> break >> else: >> print("Yes we got no bananas") >> > > I wonder if for/else could have been less confusing if it was referred to > as for-break-else and if the else clause was only valid syntax if the for > loop actually contained a break statement in the first place.
Watch out, I suggested that here some years ago and it was derided as being an "arrogant and foolish" idea. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list