for -- else: what was the motivation?

[Peter J. Holzer]

On 2022-10-09 05:37:59 +0100, Axy via Python-list wrote:
> Actually the reason I never used "else" was the violation of the rule
> of beauty "shortest block first".

That's a weird rule.

I can see justifications for "most common case first" and "most special
case first", but ordering the cases in an if/elif/else statement by
length seems like ordering books by color: It may be pretty, but it
doesn't make them easy to find.

        hp

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