Sequence-length - Missing the obvious ?

[François Pinard]

aahz at netcom.com (Aahz Maruch) writes:

> In article <3938090C.9FB5D057 at stud.ntnu.no>,
> Peter Schneider-Kamp  <peter at schneider-kamp.de> wrote:

> >As far as I understand the for loop goes on until an IndexError is
> >raised. Then the error is cleared and the for loop ends.

> Let's be technically precise here: an exception is raised and caught
> by the "for" handler; the for loop is then broken (precisely as if
> the break statement was executed).  Like any other caught exception,
> the exception is thrown away (not "error is cleared").  --

Are we precise?  If the `for' loop runs to completion, the `else:' clause
of the for-loop gets executed.  If a `break' statement is executed, the
`else:' clause is not.  So, the `for' loop is not broken "precisely".  :-)

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François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard