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by cpurdy 1257 days ago
I hate the Python syntax using "else" for this, but I love the feature.

I've often wanted both a "then" and an "else" from both for and while loops. The "then" would be for a successful completion (no break), and the "else" would be for when the loop doesn't even run a single iteration.

But that didn't make it into our "language budget", unfortunately. It's easy to implement, but hard to argue for when it doesn't get used often