On 02/07/2012 01:52 PM, Debashish Saha wrote:
for i in range(1, 8):
     print(i)
     if i==3:
         break
else:
     print('The for loop is over')


Output:
1
2
3

Question:

but after breaking the for loop why the else loop could not work?

It works fine. The else clause of a for loop executes only if the loop completes without breaking out.

If the language designers had wanted it to always execute, why have an extra keyword?

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DaveA

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