On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 07:12:58PM +0100, Sven R. Kunze wrote:
for item in my_iterator: # do per item empty: # do something else
"empty" is a poor choice, as I expect that it will break a lot of code that already uses it as a variable. if empty: ...
*Keyword* Keywords under consideration have been in (an attempt of dispassionate) order of preference: 1) empty -> most obvious, most people responded with a solution to solve the intended problem 2) else -> already taken but to some would be the preferred one 3) or -> as alternative if a new keyword is too much
I'm not too keen on the look of "or" for this: for x in iterable: block or: alternative but I think it's the least worst of the proposed keywords.
4) except -> as alternative if a new keyword is too much
I think that "except" completely fails to describe what the keyword does, and it will give some people the misunderstanding that it catches errors in the body of the for-loop. -- Steve