[Python-Dev] for...else

[Koos Zevenhoven]

On Jul 27, 2017 02:38, "MRAB" <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:

On 2017-07-26 23:55, Koos Zevenhoven wrote:

>
> ​IMO,
>
> for item in sequence:
>      # block
> nobreak:   # or perhaps `if not break:`
>      # block
>
> would be clearer (if the syntax is necessary at all).
>

You couldn't have "if not break:" because that would look like the start of
an 'if' statement.


Do you mean as an implementation issue or for human readability?

"nobreak" would introduce a new keyword, but "not break" wouldn't.


Sure :)

-- Koos (mobile)
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