[Nicola Larosa]
> ... I sometimes may have had a need for the current semantics
> of the else after loops, but I don't remember it; on the other hand, I have
> had a use for the no-iteration case a number of times. Somehow I find it
> hard to stick into my mind that's not what it means.
The primary use case is "search loops".
for item in sequence:
if desirable(item):
break
else:
no desirable item exists
Just remember "search loop", and you'll never be surprised again. Now
go back and recode your search loops in this simpler way ;-)
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