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MRAB python at mrabarnett.plus.com
Thu Jul 27 15:19:08 EDT 2017 
On 2017-07-27 03:34, Mike Miller wrote:
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> On 2017-07-26 16:36, MRAB wrote:
>> "nobreak" would introduce a new keyword, but "not break" wouldn't.
> 
> Whenever I've used the for-else, I've put a # no-break right next to it, to
> remind myself as much as anyone else.
> 
> for...: not break: is the best alternative I've yet seen, congrats.  Perhaps in
> Python 5 it can be enabled, with for-else: used instead for empty iterables, as
> that's what I expected the first few dozen times.
> 
For empty iterables, how about "elif None:"? :-)
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