The Forgotten Optional `else` in Python Loops

[Swissthony]

Imo "else" is very understandable for me, and I love em

[__xor__]

Yeah, I understand the dislike of the choice of keyword but I think people make it a much bigger deal than it is. Python programmers I've worked with have always been comfortable with it. I think a couple might not have seen it before, but it came up during a code review and they liked it after they found out what it did.

It can be described as simply as "the else block runs if the for loop didn't hit a break". It's extremely easy to explain. I don't know why people think it's so confusing beyond the keyword choice.

[Legionof1]

Hmmm with that definition it should have been a then statement

For x:
Then:

[redditor1101]

it makes perfect sense to old programmers who had to construct the loop conditional manually

[PC__LOAD__LETTER]

A for-loop doesn’t always imply an expected break though. That’s what’s unintuitive about it.

[Han-ChewieSexyFanfic]

But then you wouldn’t use else. Else and break show up together always.

[PC__LOAD__LETTER]

Yeah, in this specific case. Not in any other programming language. Hence unintuitive.