for what are for/while else clauses

[Rene Pijlman]

Diez B. Roggisch:
>today I rummaged through the language spec to see whats in the for ... else:
>for me. I was sort of disappointed to learn that the else clauses simply
>gets executed after the loop-body - regardless of the loop beeing entered
>or not.
>
>So where is an actual use case for that feature? 

To execute code only when the loop terminates normally, not when it
terminates because of a break statement.

It's been discussed before:
http://groups.google.nl/groups?q=%2Bfor+else+group:comp.lang.python&hl=nl&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=slrn9teq1k.1vd.huaiyu%40gauss.almadan.ibm.com&rnum=3
http://groups.google.nl/groups?q=%2Bfor+else+group:comp.lang.python+break&hl=nl&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=uofzrqjex.fsf%40ctwd0143.fitlinxx.com&rnum=7
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René Pijlman