[Python-Dev] Chaining try statements: eltry? (original) (raw)

David Abrahams dave at boost-consulting.com
Thu Jul 7 20:57:55 CEST 2005

Tim Peters <tim.peters at gmail.com> writes:

I also suspect that if they weren't in the language already, a PEP to introduce them would fail, because

stilllooking = True some loop: if found it: stilllooking = False break if stilllooking: # what would have been in the "else" clause is clear and easy to write without it.

Oh, that's wierd. I didn't know there were "else" clauses for loops, but I would've expected the other semantics. That is, either the loop terminates normally, "else:" whatever.

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