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

[Georg Brandl]

Terry Reedy schrieb:

>> In this thread, the proposal is that we encourage people to only use the
>> else clause on loops containing at least one break statement.
> 
> Whereas I want to be able to use while/else and for/else in didactic 
> code without having to warn people against a spurious warning.

Why would you want to do that, except to confuse a new generation of
Python programmers about its semantics?

Georg

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