[Python-Dev] for...else

[MRAB]

On 2017-07-28 10:17, Michel Desmoulin wrote:
> elif break and elif None: I'd like that very much. It's weird a break
> the semantic of break and None, but it's in such a dark corner of Python
> anyway I don't bother.
> 
Surely it would not be "elif break", but "elif not break"?

> Le 27/07/2017 à 21:19, MRAB a écrit :
>> On 2017-07-27 03:34, Mike Miller wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2017-07-26 16:36, MRAB wrote:
>>>> "nobreak" would introduce a new keyword, but "not break" wouldn't.
>>>
>>> Whenever I've used the for-else, I've put a # no-break right next to
>>> it, to
>>> remind myself as much as anyone else.
>>>
>>> for...: not break: is the best alternative I've yet seen, congrats. 
>>> Perhaps in
>>> Python 5 it can be enabled, with for-else: used instead for empty
>>> iterables, as
>>> that's what I expected the first few dozen times.
>>>
>> For empty iterables, how about "elif None:"? :-)