[Python-ideas] for/else statements considered harmful

[Carl M. Johnson]

On Jun 6, 2012, at 1:58 PM, Bruce Leban wrote:

> If a context-sensitive keyword would work I'd go for something more like
> 
> for ...
> [ else empty: ]
> else [ no match ] :
> 
> This would not introduce any incompatibilities.

Since None is now a keyword, you could say "else if None" but that might be confusing, since None is different than empty.