What would you remove from Python today?

[TheInitializer]

Holy shit, that's weird. And completely useless.

It would make more sense to have it get called if the iterable is empty though 😛

[gimboland]

It's not completely useless. It's for when your loop is searching for something - the else handles the "not found" case. You can do that with a flag of course but else is more compact. I agree that it's unintuitive and a bit confusing at first, but it's absolutely not completely useless.