En Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:41:28 -0300, Chris Mellon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:
> On 6/12/07, Gabriel Genellina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> for x in iterable: >> do something with x >> else: >> do something when there are no more x >> >> >> You can think the above as: >> >> while there are still values in iterable: >> do something with the next value >> else: >> do something when there are no more items >> > > This is a good way of phrasing it and I hope I can remember it, > because for..else always gives me trouble. To me, "else" indicates the > negative condition and I intuitively associate it with executing the > loop early, not normal exit. Personally, I think a different keyword > (maybe "after"?) would have done a better job of clarifying this. Yes, maybe, but it's hard to find a keyword equally applicable to "for" and "while" and creating two new keywords for essencially the same thing would be too much... Anyway it's too late to be changed now. -- Gabriel Genellina -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
