How best to write this if-else?

[Ingo Wilken]

Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> writes:
>e1 = re.compile ('...')
>e2 = re.compile ('...')
>e3 = re.compile ('...')
>line = file.readline()

for e in [e1, e2, e3]:
    m = e.match(line)
    if m:
        text = m.group(1)
        break
else:
    no match found

Note that the 'else' belongs to the 'for', not to the 'if'.

Regards,
Ingo
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