[Tutor] confusion with else command
Dave Angel
d at davea.name
Tue Feb 7 19:58:03 CET 2012
On 02/07/2012 01:52 PM, Debashish Saha wrote:
> for i in range(1, 8):
> print(i)
> if i==3:
> break
> else:
> print('The for loop is over')
>
>
> Output:
> 1
> 2
> 3
>
> Question:
>
> but after breaking the for loop why the else loop could not work?
It works fine. The else clause of a for loop executes only if the loop
completes without breaking out.
If the language designers had wanted it to always execute, why have an
extra keyword?
--
DaveA
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