On 2017-11-04, Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 11/03/2017 09:06 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 4, 2017 at 1:57 PM, Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On 11/03/2017 07:09 PM, Steve D'Aprano wrote: >>>> That's incorrect. There are multiple ways to exit a loop that >>>> will prevent the `else` block from executing, `break` is only one. >>> >>> Such as? >> >> There are many. But other than break, I don't know of any that WOULD >> execute the next line of code immediately _after_ the loop. > > Can you be more specific? What are some of these "many" ways of aborting > a loop? Help a guy out here. > > I know, for example, that we have exceptions. But those hardly matter in > this discussion because they wouldn't execute the else clause either. > They'd either be caught elsewhere, or end the program. sys.exit() can > also terminate a for loop, but it terminates the whole program without > running the else statement.
Yes, those are the sort of thing that Steve was referring to. He was being unhelpfully pedantic. A giant meteor destroying the computer the program was running on would prevent the 'else' block from executing too. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
