for / while else doesn't make sense

[Lawrence D’Oliveiro]

On Friday, June 3, 2016 at 8:09:21 AM UTC+12, Rob Gaddi wrote:
> Although your loop is really the _canonical_ use case for
> 
> for loopvar in range(initial_value, limit+1):
>     processing
>     if found_what_im_looking_for:
>         break
> else:
>     do_whatever_it_is_you_do_when_its_not_found

The reason why I don’t like this is that there are two ways out of the Python for-statement, and they are written quite differently. Why the asymmetry? Logically, all ways out of a loop are of equal significance.