[Python-Dev] Chaining try statements: eltry?
David Abrahams
dave at boost-consulting.com
Thu Jul 7 20:57:55 CEST 2005
Tim Peters <tim.peters at gmail.com> writes:
> I also suspect that if they weren't in the language already, a PEP to
> introduce them would fail, because
>
> still_looking = True
> some loop:
> if found it:
> still_looking = False
> break
> if still_looking:
> # what would have been in the "else" clause
>
> is clear and easy to write without it.
Oh, that's wierd. I didn't know there were "else" clauses for loops,
but I would've expected the other semantics. That is, either the loop
terminates normally, "else:" whatever.
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Dave Abrahams
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