Re: adding elif to for

2017-12-19 Thread Skip Montanaro
Has any thought been given to adding elif to the for statement? Time machine at work I think: https://docs.python.org/3/reference/compound_stmts.html#the-if-statement Skip -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: adding elif to for

2017-12-19 Thread Skip Montanaro
Apologies. Misread your question. Skip On Dec 19, 2017 6:16 PM, "Skip Montanaro" <skip.montan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Has any thought been given to adding elif to the for statement? > > > Time machine at work I think: > > https://docs.python.org/3/reference

Re: adding elif to for

2017-12-19 Thread Bill
bob gailer wrote: Has any thought been given to adding elif to the for statement? I don't think it is a good idea because it needlessly, from my point of view, embeds too much complexity into a single construct (making it more difficult to maintain, for instance). That's what language

adding elif to for

2017-12-19 Thread bob gailer
Has any thought been given to adding elif to the for statement? for x in foo:     if y: break elif a==b:     something else:     something else as a shortcut to: for x in foo:     if y: break else:     if a==b:     something else:     something else bob gailer -- https://mail.python.org