On Sat, 4 Jun 2016 02:24 am, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> On Saturday, June 4, 2016 at 3:52:42 AM UTC+12, Rob Gaddi wrote:
>> Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>>> The reason why I don’t like this is that there are two ways out of the
>>> Python for-statement, and they are written quite differently. Why the
>>> asymmetry? Logically, all ways out of a loop are of equal significance.
>>
>> I wouldn't say that at all. One is early termination due to success.
>> The other is that you've run out of things to try, and exit due to
>> exhaustion of the iterator. They're two very different cases...
>
> Different in what way? A loop exit is a loop exit. It causes termination
> of the loop.
You can exit a loop because you have run out of items to process, or you can
exit the loop because a certain condition has been met.
The canonical example is a search, where you need to process differently
depending on whether a match was found or not. In pseudo-code:
for item in items:
if condition(item):
# found match, exit loop
break
if match was found:
process match
else:
no match
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