A use-case for for...else with no break

[Steve D'Aprano]

On Thu, 2 Nov 2017 10:45 pm, Alberto Berti wrote:

>>>>>> "Steve" == Steve D'Aprano <steve+python at pearwood.info> writes:
> 
>     py> for x in "abcdefgh":
>     Steve> ...     print(x, end='')
>     Steve> ...
>     py> efghpy>
> 
> 
>     Steve> "For ... else" to the rescue!
> 
>     py> for char in "abcdefgh":
>     Steve> ...     print(char, end='')
>     Steve> ... else:
>     Steve> ...     print()
>     Steve> ...
>     Steve> abcdefgh
>     py>
> 
> else doesn't seem to bring any advantage over:
> 
> for char in "abcdefgh":
>     print(char, end='')
> print()

Have you tried it in the interactive interpreter?


py> for char in "abcdefgh":
...     print(char, end='')
... print()
  File "<stdin>", line 3
    print()
        ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax




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