A decade or so of Python programming, and I've never thought to "for-elif"

[Rob Cliffe]

If for ... else was spelt more intelligibly, e.g. for ... nobreak, there 
would be no temptation to use anything like `elif'. `nobreakif' wouldn't 
be a keyword.
Rob Cliffe

On 30/11/2021 06:24, Chris Angelico wrote:
> for ns in namespaces:
>      if name in ns:
>          print("Found!")
>          break
> elif name.isupper():
>      print("All-caps name that wasn't found")
>
> This actually doesn't work. I have been programming in Python for well
> over a decade, and never before been in a situation where this would
> be useful.
>
> As YAGNIs go, this is right up there.
>
> (For the record, since this was the last thing in the function, I just
> made the break a return. Alternatively, an extra indentation level
> "else: if name.isupper():" wouldn't have been that terrible.)
>
> Your random piece of amusement for today.
>
> ChrisA