"Weird" Indentation? (Or: is there a for...else construct?)

Andreas Waldenburger geekmail at usenot.de
Sat Feb 7 09:34:59 EST 2009


On Sun, 08 Feb 2009 01:28:00 +1100 Steven D'Aprano
<steve at pearwood.info> wrote:

> Andreas Waldenburger wrote:
> 
> > It seems that there is a for...else construct. Replacing the inner
> > if with pass seems to confirm this. The else clause is still
> > executed.
> 
> Yes, there is a for...else construct.
> 
That's something. In 6+ years of Python programming I've never seen or
heard of this thing. This might be useful, apparently.


> [snip]
> 
> > What's broken here: Python or my brain?
> 
> Perhaps we should not answer that question.
> 
I did phrase that rather provocatively, didn't I?

Well thanks. I'll try to learn less noisily in the future. :)

/W

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