On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Debashish Saha <silid...@gmail.com> 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 command could not work?
Because that's the way a for/else statement works. The else suite is
only run if you do not break out of the loop. See the docs here:
http://docs.python.org/reference/compound_stmts.html#the-for-statement
Jerry
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