On Sat, 5 Mar 2022 at 10:28, Peter J. Holzer <hjp-pyt...@hjp.at> wrote: > > On 2022-03-04 11:34:07 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > > On Fri, 4 Mar 2022 at 10:09, Avi Gross via Python-list > > <python-list@python.org> wrote: > > > The drumbeat I keep hearing is that some people hear/see the same > > > word as implying something else. ELSE is ambiguous in the context it > > > is used. > > > > What I'm hearing is that there are, broadly speaking, two types of > > programmers [1]: > > > > 1) Those who think about "for-else" as a search tool and perfectly > > understand how it behaves > > 2) Those who have an incorrect idea about what for-else is supposed to > > do, don't understand it, and don't like it. > > 3) Those who understand what it does und don't even find it*s syntax > very confusing, yet only very rarely find it useful. > > I have probably used it a handful of times in 8 years of Python > programming. Coincidentally, I think I used it just this week - but I > can't find it any more which probably means that it was either in a > throwaway script or I have since rewritten the code. >
Part of group 1. It doesn't matter how often or rarely you use the feature; there are a LOT of features of Python that I use only occasionally, if ever. But as long as you know how to use it, it's there when you need it. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
