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

[Masklinn]

On 8 Oct 2009, at 21:44 , Terry Reedy wrote:
> You and the OP would force ME to also comment out or delete the  
> 'else:' and dedent 'do_b' for no functional reason but merely to  
> satisy YOUR esthetic style preference.
That is not the case, and that's the difference between an *error* and  
a *warning*.

A warning doesn't *force* anything, it merely… warns. If you want to  
ignore the warning, you're free to do so. Most of the time, there's  
even a switch to disable (or enable, if it's not enabled by default)  
the aforementioned warning.

The point of a warning is very much that the code works and is legal,  
but *in most case* is not what people would want. If it's what you  
want, you're free to go ahead and keep the code as is, ignoring the  
warning (or even filtering it out).