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Re: beginner question (True False help)

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Subject Re: beginner question (True False help)
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On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 7:20 AM,  <wxjmfauth@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> def z2():
> ...     letters = 'abc'
> ...     while True:
> ...         c = input('letter: ')
> ...         if c not in letters:
> ...             print('end, fin, Schluss')
> ...             break
> ...         else:
> ...             print('do stuff')


Minor quibble: I don't like having a hard exit followed by an "else".
If the "if" branch will unconditionally quit the loop (with a break,
here, but could also be a return, a thrown exception, etc etc), I
would prefer to see the "else" removed and its code unindented one
level. Maybe this is just personal preference, though, learned from
assembly language programming where a "block if" looks something like
this:

; if x == y:
CMP x,y
JNZ .else
; Code for "x == y"
JMP .endif
.else:
; Code for "else"
.endif

Putting an unconditional departure in the "x == y" branch makes the
"JMP .endif" redundant.

ChrisA

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beginner question (True False help) eschneider92@comcast.net - 2013-08-07 01:17 -0700
  Re: beginner question (True False help) Joshua Landau <joshua@landau.ws> - 2013-08-07 09:42 +0100
  Re: beginner question (True False help) eschneider92@comcast.net - 2013-08-07 13:59 -0700
    Re: beginner question (True False help) Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-08-08 01:18 +0000
  Re: beginner question (True False help) Larry Hudson <orgnut@yahoo.com> - 2013-08-07 19:49 -0700
  Re: beginner question (True False help) wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2013-08-07 23:20 -0700
    Re: beginner question (True False help) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-08-08 12:41 +0100
    Re: beginner question (True False help) Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-08-08 16:29 -0400
      Re: beginner question (True False help) wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2013-08-09 01:05 -0700
  Re: beginner question (True False help) eschneider92@comcast.net - 2013-08-09 15:27 -0700
    Re: beginner question (True False help) Joshua Landau <joshua@landau.ws> - 2013-08-10 00:05 +0100
    Re: beginner question (True False help) Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-08-09 22:58 -0400
  Re: beginner question (True False help) eschneider92@comcast.net - 2013-08-09 15:28 -0700
  Re: beginner question (True False help) eschneider92@comcast.net - 2013-08-09 16:14 -0700
    Re: beginner question (True False help) Joshua Landau <joshua@landau.ws> - 2013-08-10 00:30 +0100
  Re: beginner question (True False help) eschneider92@comcast.net - 2013-08-09 16:24 -0700
  Re: beginner question (True False help) eschneider92@comcast.net - 2013-08-09 16:34 -0700
    Re: beginner question (True False help) Joshua Landau <joshua@landau.ws> - 2013-08-10 02:22 +0100
    Re: beginner question (True False help) Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-08-10 01:40 +0000
  Re: beginner question (True False help) eschneider92@comcast.net - 2013-08-09 16:40 -0700
    Re: beginner question (True False help) MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2013-08-10 01:39 +0100
  Re: beginner question (True False help) eschneider92@comcast.net - 2013-08-09 16:43 -0700
  Re: beginner question (True False help) eschneider92@comcast.net - 2013-08-09 18:08 -0700

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