How can I make sense of the `else` clause of Python loops? [closed]

Answer 1

My gotcha moment with the loop's else clause was when I was watching a talk by Raymond Hettinger, who told a story about how he thought it should have been called nobreak. Take a look at the following code, what do you think it would do?

for i in range(10):
    if test(i):
        break
    # ... work with i
nobreak:
    print('Loop completed')

What would you guess it does? Well, the part that says nobreak would only be executed if a break statement wasn't hit in the loop.