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On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 01:34:02 +0100, René Kla?an <rene.klacan@gmail.com>
declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:

> it seems that lot of you are forgeting about this case:
> 
> for i in [1,2,3,4,5]:
>     print i
> else:
>     print('this will be printed also because cycle wasnt broke')
> 
> so the one case when else branch is executed is when condition is not
> satisfied and the other case is when there is no break executed during the
> cycle
>

	The short summary is that the "else:" is performed ANY TIME the loop
exits normally... Only an internal "break" will skip the "else:".
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