[Python-ideas] SyntaxWarning for for/while/else without break or return?

[Masklinn]

On 8 Oct 2009, at 18:19 , Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Masklinn writes:
>> Both would, because in both cases the `else:` clause serves no  
>> purpose
>> whatsoever. It's noise.
>
> Tut, tut.  In Nick's proposal, both would raise because there is an
> "else:" but there is no break.
Well yeah but that was what I was saying: in both cases (because there  
is no break) the `else:` clause has no purpose, the exact same  
behavior would be obtained by moving the code inside it to just behind  
the `for:` clause and removing the `else:` one. Therefore the "else:"  
part of the `else:` clause is noise in the system, it's not signal and  
it's not absent.

>  I doubt the Python compiler would add
> the editorial comment about "noise," though.<wink>
Oh absolutely.