[Edu-sig] strange "else" behaviour (after "for", without "if")

[Andre Roberge]

The else clause in a for loop (or a while loop) should be read as "if no
break:"

André

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Jurgis Pralgauskis <
jurgis.pralgauskis at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> does anyone know why this works without error on py 2.7?
>
> for x in [2, 5, 1]:     print x
> else:    print "nonsense"
>
> the result:
> 2
> 5
> 1
> nonsense
>
>
> my students made such "composition", and I don't know myself why :)
>
>
> --
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