for -- else: what was the motivation?

[Chris Angelico]

On Mon, 10 Oct 2022 at 21:57, Axy via Python-list
<python-list at python.org> wrote:
>
>
> > Not sure what you mean, but a for-else without a break is quite
> > useless. What exactly ARE you arguing here?
> >
> > The else is associated with the break to the exact extent that one is
> > essential to the other's value.
>
> I'm not arguing. That was just for the record, how things are done in
> Python. Basically, I simply asked a question and got a definite answer
> and clear understanding shortly, in a few replies. All the rest of this
> thread looks irrelevant to me, it's about coding style and probably
> should be continued under a different title, but I'm not interested to
> participate in it.

Here's where the "rest of this thread" started:

> Actually the reason I never used "else" was the violation of the rule of
> beauty "shortest block first".

You disparaged a feature on the basis of a style rule that few of us
had heard of or agree with. We all agree that coding style is
important; none of us would see block length as a reason to avoid
using an else clause on a for loop.

Your subsequent posts have left me confused as to what you're trying to convey.

ChrisA