On 2022-03-05 00:25:44 +0100, Peter J. Holzer wrote: > On 2022-03-04 11:34:07 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > > 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.
Just found it again. Not yet committed, and I may still end up rewriting
it again before turning in the pull request, but for now it's the
simplest solution for the problem.
hp
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