Else statement executing when it shouldnt

[Thomas Boell]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 02:42:27 +1100
Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 2:39 AM, Thomas Boell <tboell at domain.invalid> wrote:
> > Huh?! I would have expected all your examples to raise a SyntaxError or
> > IndentationError. Why don't they? Is 'else' not required to have a
> > matching 'if'?
> 
> Other things can have else, including 'for' and 'while' loops. :)

I must say, that's bound to be confusing for anyone who knows any
language other than Python (or none, even).  Syntax like that is "an
accident waiting to happen"...