[Python-Dev] PEP-xxx: Unification of for statement and list-comp syntax (original) (raw)

Josiah Carlson jcarlson at uci.edu
Mon May 22 21:20:12 CEST 2006

Niko Matsakis <niko at alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> I saw them. Your brain must be wired very differently > to mine, because I find loops with a continue in them > harder to follow than ones without -- exactly the > opposite of what you seem to prefer. Delurking for no particular reason: For what it's worth, I also favor the continue syntax Heiko compared his code against. Without it, you have to scroll to the end of the loop to know whether there is an else clause; it also allows you to

One could also consider documenting the fact that there is no else clause...

for i in ...:
    if ...: #no else clause
        ...

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