for -- else: what was the motivation?
Calvin Spealman
cspealma at redhat.com
Mon Oct 10 10:36:44 EDT 2022
On Sat, Oct 8, 2022 at 5:35 PM rbowman <bowman at montana.com> wrote:
> On 10/7/22 21:32, Axy wrote:
> > So, seriously, why they needed else if the following pieces produce same
> > result? Does anyone know or remember their motivation?
>
> In real scenarios there would be more logic in the for block that would
> meet a condition and break out of the loop. If the condition is never
> met, the else block runs. To steal from w3schools:
>
>
> fruits = ["apple", "peach", "cherry"]
> for x in fruits:
> print(x)
> if x == "banana":
> break
> else:
> print("Yes we got no bananas")
>
I wonder if for/else could have been less confusing if it was referred to
as for-break-else and if the else clause was only valid syntax if the for
loop actually contained a break statement in the first place.
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