On Sep 29, 1:25 pm, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > The example that makes it clearest for me is searching > through a list for a certain item and breaking out of > the 'for' loop if I find it. If I get to the end of the > list and still haven't broken out then I haven't found > the item, and that's when the else statement takes effect: > > for item in my_list: > if item == desired_item: > print "Found it!" > break > else: > print "It's not in the list"
To me, this is the quintessential use case and clearest example of the for-else. John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
