Re: [PATCH] [cvs2svn] Code cleanup - Use "for: ... else: ..." to avoid a temporary variable

mark benedetto king wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 07:03:09PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote:
>>> Doesn't this change the semantics of the block?
>>
>> No - The behaviour of "for: ... else: ..." is to execute the "else:"
>> unless the loop was exited by "break".
>>
>
> Ah. That explains it. I had jumped to the (wrong) conclusion that
> the else clause was for empty lists.

Understandable. It's not a very obviously named feature.
It helps to think of "for" as "search-for" and "break" as "found-it".

Max.

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Received on Sun Aug 24 16:25:08 2003