[Tutor] for/else question

[Erik Price]

On Friday, September 12, 2003, at 11:48  AM, Scott Widney wrote:

> It just doesn't fit. But there is a term in another statement in 
> Python that
> seems closer to what I'm thinking:
>
>     Try:
>         something that might not work;
>     if it fails:
>         do this;
>     finally (whether or not it worked):
>         do this too.
>
> This "feels" more comfortable. Finally and afterwards are semantic
> neighbors. So if I think 'finally' in my head, but type 'else' when 
> dealing
> with a for statement, it seems to relieve the pressure. And now we 
> return to
> our regularly scheduled program....

Yeah, "finally" would have been a much better token to use here.


Erik