for -- else: what was the motivation?

[Robert Latest]

Chris Angelico wrote:
> Yes, I'm aware that code readability becomes irrelevant for
> short-duration projects. Beside the point. I'm wondering how important
> it really is to have the shortest block first.

I usually put the most expected / frequent / not negated block first if the
whole if/else statement is not "too long". Sometimes whatever you want to do
becomes pointless if a certain conditions is not met, in which case I do an
early break or return and have no else block at all.

> Given that for-else is an excellent, if rarely-used, construct

I knew it existed but coming from C I never thought to exploit it. I know I
wrote loops like this:

    found = None
    while not found:
        found = search(something)
        if found:
            break
    if not found:
        complain()

Need to look into using "else" in these cases.