for -- else: what was the motivation?

[Chris Angelico]

On Mon, 10 Oct 2022 at 22:37, Axy via Python-list
<python-list at python.org> wrote:
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> On 10/10/2022 12:24, Chris Angelico wrote:
> > On Mon, 10 Oct 2022 at 21:57, Axy via Python-list
> > <python-list at python.org> wrote:
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> >>> 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.
> Oh, I'm really sorry. My apologies.
> >   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.
>
> As I understand from the above there must be a committee that delegates
> a speaker? Where to read rules? How to participate? There's something
> beyond this list I'm not aware of yet?

We in this thread. Look at the past replies.

ChrisA