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for what are for/while else clauses

Michele Simionato michele.simionato at poste.it
Fri Nov 28 01:31:46 EST 2003 
magnus at thinkware.se (Magnus Lyck?) wrote in message news:<258fd9b8.0311271519.153f573d at posting.google.com>...
> First of all, I'm not sure it's a good idea to use
> exceptions like a poor (rich?) man's GOTO like this. :)
> 
> If you persist, I'm not so sure your code is clearer than:
> 
>         try:
>             for ORlist in includes:
>                 try:
>                     for filter in ORlist:
>                         for field in curr_fields:
>                             for item in record[field]:
>                                 if match(item, filter):
>                                     raise Found
>                     raise NotFound
>                 except Found:
>                     continue
>         except NotFound:
>             continue
>         else:
>             result.append(record)
> 
> With the else clause on the for loop, just after the if
> statement, you are bound to confuse people. I would guess
> that most people who casually looked at that code would
> think that you had made an indentation mistake. Some would
> probably "correct" it.

I, for one, could get confused. BTW, I don't remember a single case in
all my code where I have used so much indentation. I would write some
helper function and avoid nesting as much as possible.

                 Michelee
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