On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 7:20 AM, <wxjmfa...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> def z2(): > ... letters = 'abc' > ... while True: > ... c = input('letter: ') > ... if c not in letters: > ... print('end, fin, Schluss') > ... break > ... else: > ... print('do stuff')
Minor quibble: I don't like having a hard exit followed by an "else". If the "if" branch will unconditionally quit the loop (with a break, here, but could also be a return, a thrown exception, etc etc), I would prefer to see the "else" removed and its code unindented one level. Maybe this is just personal preference, though, learned from assembly language programming where a "block if" looks something like this: ; if x == y: CMP x,y JNZ .else ; Code for "x == y" JMP .endif .else: ; Code for "else" .endif Putting an unconditional departure in the "x == y" branch makes the "JMP .endif" redundant. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list