empty clause of for loops
Sven R. Kunze
srkunze at mail.de
Wed Mar 16 12:56:15 EDT 2016
On 16.03.2016 17:37, Random832 wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016, at 11:17, Sven R. Kunze wrote:
>> I can imagine that. Could you describe the general use-case? From what I
>> know, "else" is executed when you don't "break" the loop. When is this
>> useful?
>
> for item in collection:
> if good(item):
> thing = item
> break
> else:
> thing = default # or raise an exception, etc
I was thinking about why we don't use it that often. My response to this
example:
thing = item if item in collection else default
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