[Python-ideas] Re: Idea: Extend "for ... else ..." to allow "for ... if break ..." else

Jonathan Fine writes:

Here's a baby example - searching in a nested loop. Suppose we're looking for the word 'apple' in a collection of books. Once we've found it, we stop.

While I was writing a reply, several people replied with very similar comments, so I won't repeat them. But these two examples are so obnoxious I had to post them:

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for page in (page for book in books for page in book if 'a' in page):

... break ...

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page

'abc'

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[page for book in books for page in book if 'a' in page][0]

'abc'

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