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

On 2020-07-29 at 07:09:05 -0700, Guido van Rossum guido@python.org wrote:

I honestly and strongly believe that we should do nothing here. Python thrives because it is relatively simple. Adding new syntax to deal with looping special cases makes it less simple, and encourages a bad coding style (nested loops, multiple breaks...).

I was about to go off on another Get Off My Lawn rant, so thank you for putting this so succintly and so politely. :-)

If I end up with more than one flag controlling my search loop, then it's time to break (pun intended) the logic into smaller/simpler pieces rather than to look for a more complicated language construct.