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Re: A quirk/gotcha of for i, x in enumerate(seq) when seq is empty

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Date 2012-02-24 15:00 +0000
Subject Re: A quirk/gotcha of for i, x in enumerate(seq) when seq is empty
From Arnaud Delobelle <arnodel@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.128.1330095619.3037.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On 24 February 2012 14:54, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:

> for...else is a very useful construct, but the name is misleading. It
> took me a long time to stop thinking that the else clause executes when
> the for loop was empty.

This is why I think we should call this construct "for / break / else"
rather than "for / else".

-- 
Arnaud

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A quirk/gotcha of for i, x in enumerate(seq) when seq is empty Alex Willmer <alex@moreati.org.uk> - 2012-02-23 16:30 -0800
  Re: A quirk/gotcha of for i, x in enumerate(seq) when seq is empty Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-02-24 01:08 +0000
    Re: A quirk/gotcha of for i, x in enumerate(seq) when seq is empty Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2012-02-23 19:49 -0800
    Re: A quirk/gotcha of for i, x in enumerate(seq) when seq is empty Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-02-24 07:10 +0000
    Re: A quirk/gotcha of for i, x in enumerate(seq) when seq is empty Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2012-02-24 09:44 +0100
  Re: A quirk/gotcha of for i, x in enumerate(seq) when seq is empty Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-02-23 17:21 -0800
  Re: A quirk/gotcha of for i, x in enumerate(seq) when seq is empty Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2012-02-24 04:32 -0800
    Re: A quirk/gotcha of for i, x in enumerate(seq) when seq is empty Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2012-02-24 13:44 +0100
      Re: A quirk/gotcha of for i, x in enumerate(seq) when seq is empty Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2012-02-24 14:14 +0100
      Re: A quirk/gotcha of for i, x in enumerate(seq) when seq is empty Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-02-24 14:54 +0000
        Re: A quirk/gotcha of for i, x in enumerate(seq) when seq is empty Arnaud Delobelle <arnodel@gmail.com> - 2012-02-24 15:00 +0000
        Re: A quirk/gotcha of for i, x in enumerate(seq) when seq is empty Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2012-02-24 16:16 +0100
        Re: A quirk/gotcha of for i, x in enumerate(seq) when seq is empty Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2012-02-28 14:56 -0800
          Re: A quirk/gotcha of for i, x in enumerate(seq) when seq is empty Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-02-29 10:24 +1100
            Re: A quirk/gotcha of for i, x in enumerate(seq) when seq is empty Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-02-29 00:18 +0000

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