On 2022-03-04 11:34:07 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, 4 Mar 2022 at 10:09, Avi Gross via Python-list > <[email protected]> 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.
hp
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