* Madhu <m3ilfdaft1.fsf @leonis4.robolove.meer.net> :
Wrote on Tue, 07 Mar 2023 00:05:38 +0530:
> * Alan Bawden <86edq1wz9h.fsf @williamsburg.bawden.org> :
> Wrote on Mon, 06 Mar 2023 12:44:26 -0500:
>> No, it really does match the 'for x'. This use of 'else' is a
>> (controversial) feature of Python. The code above is quoted directly
>> from the Python tutorial at the given URL, which nicely explains how
>> it works.
> Thanks for pointing it out. ("My blushes if it were possible]")

I had a chance to revisit this, and suggest to myself that the for-else
feature is another not-really-elegant quirk of the python designers'
minds --- if the idea is to offer control-flow

I want to modify some python code with a for loop:
```
for x in [XXX]:
DO-THINGS
```
to skip DO-THINGS if x was in another set [YYY], i.e. the desired
control flow is

```
for x in [XXX]:
for y in [YYY]:
if x == y:
CONTINUE-OUTER-LOOP
DO-THINGS
```

Python of course doesn't have CONTINUE-OUTER-LOOP. The for-else
construct suggests I can expect python to continue evaluation of the
outer loop when breaking out of the inner loop. However it doesn't cover
that. I have to explicitly do, in the inner loop
```
skip = false
for y in [YYY]:
if x == y:
skip = true
break
else:
pass # else is of no help here
if skip continue # the outer loop
```
and the control flow is as clunky as it can be.

>> It's controversial, not because there is something wrong with the
>> feature itself, but because many people find naming it 'else' to be
>> confusing.