[Python-ideas] SyntaxWarning for for/while/else without break or return?

[Masklinn]

On 9 Oct 2009, at 23:07 , Georg Brandl wrote:
> An example from a different language is mixing of && and || without  
> parens,
> which GCC warns about.  The syntax is valid C, but I assume the  
> warning exists
> because the bugs it prevents weigh more than the irritation it  
> causes in
> some developers.

Indeed, there are numerous examples of such warnings in compilers:  
warning about assignments in conditional contexts (which Python  
forbids entirely, the ultimate hand-holding), warning about mismatches  
between the format specifiers and the arguments of a `printf` or  
`scanf`, warning about two-digit year formats, warning about  
incomplete enumerations, warning about storing values but never  
reading them, warning about allocated objects which are might not get  
freed, warning about potential null-pointer dereferencings, warning  
about overlapping patterns, warning about incomplete patterns, warning  
about mixing tabs and spaces…

Python even has the last one already.

In all of those cases, the code is legal, and it might even have been  
written that way on purpose.