On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 4:57 PM, <rgrigo...@gmail.com> wrote: > It would help newbies and prevent confusion.
Are you asking why Guido didn't call it foreach back in 1989, or why the core developers don't change it now, 27 years later? I can't speak for the historical perspective, but I'm sure there's basically no chance that it will be changed now. It would be a totally backwards incompatible change, invalidate every tutorial and bit of python documentation that's been written over the last three decades, and break pretty much every python program that works today. In exchange, you get newbies who are a slightly less confused about for loops. That tradeoff isn't worth it. -- Jerry -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
