1.5.2 for: else:

[Tim Peters]

[/F, on the sparkling consistency of for/else, while/else, if/else]
> what else did you expect from Guido?

[Greg Ewing]
> I would have expected Guido to shriek in horror
> and refuse to even consider such a semantically
> ambiguous construct.
>
> It seems quite out of character for both him
> and Python.

Indeed, if for/else hadn't been in Python from the start, anyone suggesting
it would get flamed without mercy!  I happen to like it, but it's Guido-like
only in its inscrutablitily at first sight <wink>.   The only Pythonism less
Pythonic is that e.g.

    4 < "3"

silently returns true.

although-that-would-be-even-less-pythonic-if-it-returned-false-ly y'rs  -
tim