for-else

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On Mar 5, 10:44 pm, "Troels Thomsen" <nej tak ...> wrote:
> > The primary use case is searching a container:
>
> >   prep_tasks()
> >   for item in container:
> >       if predicate(item):
> >           found_tasks()
> >           break
> >   else:
> >       not_found_tasks()
> >   follow_up_tasks
>
> I've found myself mimicing this again and again in c, and was pleased to
> find it in python and use it regularely.
> int i
> for (i = 0 ; i < 10 ; ++i)
>   blah
> if i == 10
>   not_found_tasks()
>
> The discussion of words is silly. My surprise about "else following a for
> loop.... what the heck ...." lasted excactly as long as it takes to read
> this sentence.
>
> tpt