On 23 January 2013 11:03, René Klačan <rene.kla...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 1:39 AM, Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benja...@gmail.com> > wrote:
You missed off an important piece of context in your post: >> I think he meant that he would use the else clause more often if it >> had the semantics so that the two blocks below were equivalent: The key word in that sentence is "if". >> # Version 1 >> while condition: >> # stuff >> else: >> # other stuff >> >> # Version 2 >> if condition: >> while condition: >> # stuff >> else: >> # other stuff > > they wouldnt be equivalent if #staff in version did not cointain "break" > statement and this is common mistake I realise that they are not equivalent. My point was that some people expect, or would prefer, different behaviour so that those two *would* be equivalent (assuming that evaluating "condition" doesn't have side effects). Oscar -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
