🔒 if else

[dull tusk]

without context can anyone tell me that this else is complementary to which if ?

[warm marlin]

@dull tusk

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[rotund harness]

neither, as the indentations don't align

[dull tusk]

sorry

i fixed it

[rotund harness]

no, you didn't

does this answer your question now?

[dull tusk]

copy paste is broken

brb

[rotund harness]

the else is indented on the same level as if i in marked:

[dull tusk]

yes .. i wanted to make sure
in C , this would cause a dangling if else problem

so if k==3 : does not affect the else right

[rotund harness]

right

[dull tusk]

but theres a problem

[rotund harness]

what problem?

[dull tusk]

why is this valid too ?

no bad syntax warning

[rotund harness]

for...else means something else

the else is executed if there is no break statement executed within the for loop

so it runs unless you break out of the for loop

[dull tusk]

oh

i see

ohh

!e

for i in range(5):
    print(1)
    else:
       print(2)
print("hello")

[warm marlin]

:x: Your 3.12 eval job has completed with return code 1.

001 |   File "/home/main.py", line 3
002 |     else:
003 |     ^^^^
004 | SyntaxError: invalid syntax

[rotund harness]

your else is not aligned with the for

[dull tusk]

OHH i thought here it was for the original for

!e

for i in range(5):
    print(1)
else:
    print(2)
print("hello")

[warm marlin]

:white_check_mark: Your 3.12 eval job has completed with return code 0.

001 | 1
002 | 1
003 | 1
004 | 1
005 | 1
006 | 2
007 | hello

[dull tusk]

i see now

where is this used

i mean how can i use this

[rotund harness]

I use it when my for loop searches for a matching item in an iterable, and doesn't find it

if a match is found, I break out of the loop early

[dull tusk]

wow , this is something new

thank you agronholm

!close

[warm marlin]

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