On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 8:23 AM, Ned Batchelder <n...@nedbatchelder.com> wrote: > On 11/1/17 5:12 PM, Alexey Muranov wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> what do you think about the idea of replacing "`else`" with "`then`" in >> the contexts of `for` and `try`? >> >> It seems clear that it should be rather "then" than "else." Compare also >> "try ... then ... finally" with "try ... else ... finally". >> >> Currently, with "else", it is almost impossible to guess the meaning >> without looking into the documentation. >> >> Off course, it should not be changed in Python 3, maybe in Python 4 or 5, >> but in Python 3 `then` could be an alias of `else` in these contexts. >> >> Alexey. >> > > Apart from the questions of backward compatibility etc (Python is unlikely > to ever go through another shift like the 2/3 breakage), are you sure "then" > is what you mean? This won't print "end": > > for i in range(10): > print(i) > else: > print(end)
Well, it'll bomb with NameError when it tries to look up the *name* end. But it will run that line of code - if you quote it, it will work. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
