for i in range(10):
    print(i)

    if i == 9:
        print("Too big - I'm giving up!")
        break;
else:
    print("Completed successfully")

Break关键字用于结束循环。如果I = 9，循环将结束。而任何一个如果条件没有太多的满足，那么其余的部分将由其他条件来完成。

因为他们不想给这门语言引入一个新的关键字。每一个都窃取一个标识符并导致向后兼容问题，所以通常是最后的手段。

下面是一种我从未见过其他人提到过的思考方法:

首先，请记住for循环基本上只是while循环的语法糖。例如，循环

for item in sequence:
    do_something(item)

可以重写(大约)为

item = None
while sequence.hasnext():
    item = sequence.next()
    do_something(item)

其次，记住while循环基本上只是重复if块!你总是可以把while循环读成“如果这个条件为真，执行body，然后回来再次检查”。

因此while/else非常有意义:它与if/else结构完全相同，只是增加了循环直到条件变为false的功能，而不是只检查一次条件。

然后for/else也非常有意义:因为所有的for循环都只是while-循环之上的语法糖，你只需要弄清楚底层while-循环的隐式条件是什么，然后else对应于当条件变为False时。

我同意，它更像是一个'elif not[条件(s)提高中断]'。

我知道这是一个老话题，但我现在正在研究同样的问题，我不确定是否有人能以我理解的方式抓住这个问题的答案。

对我来说，有三种方法来“阅读”For…else or While…所有等价的Else语句是:

Else ==如果循环正常完成(没有中断或错误) Else ==如果循环没有遇到断点 Else == Else not(条件引发中断)(假设存在这样的条件，否则就不会有循环)

因此，从本质上讲，循环中的“else”实际上是一个“elif…”，其中'…’表示(1)不中断，相当于(2)NOT[条件(s)引发中断]。

我认为关键在于，如果没有break, else是没有意义的，所以for…其他的包括:

for:
    do stuff
    conditional break # implied by else
else not break:
    do more stuff

a的基本元素。else循环如下所示，你可以用更简单的英语阅读它们:

for:
    do stuff
    condition:
        break
else: # read as "else not break" or "else not condition"
    do more stuff

正如其他帖子所说，当你能够找到你的循环正在寻找的东西时，通常会引发一个break，所以else:变成了“如果目标物品没有找到，该怎么办”。

例子

您还可以同时使用异常处理、中断和for循环。

for x in range(0,3):
    print("x: {}".format(x))
    if x == 2:
        try:
            raise AssertionError("ASSERTION ERROR: x is {}".format(x))
        except:
            print(AssertionError("ASSERTION ERROR: x is {}".format(x)))
            break
else:
    print("X loop complete without error")

结果

x: 0
x: 1
x: 2
ASSERTION ERROR: x is 2
----------
# loop not completed (hit break), so else didn't run

例子

一个简单的例子，断点被击中。

for y in range(0,3):
    print("y: {}".format(y))
    if y == 2: # will be executed
        print("BREAK: y is {}\n----------".format(y))
        break
else: # not executed because break is hit
    print("y_loop completed without break----------\n")

结果

y: 0
y: 1
y: 2
BREAK: y is 2
----------
# loop not completed (hit break), so else didn't run

例子

没有中断的简单示例，没有引发中断的条件，也没有遇到错误。

for z in range(0,3):
     print("z: {}".format(z))
     if z == 4: # will not be executed
         print("BREAK: z is {}\n".format(y))
         break
     if z == 4: # will not be executed
         raise AssertionError("ASSERTION ERROR: x is {}".format(x))
else:
     print("z_loop complete without break or error\n----------\n")

结果

z: 0
z: 1
z: 2
z_loop complete without break or error
----------

else语句块中的代码将在for循环未被打破时执行。

for x in xrange(1,5):
    if x == 5:
        print 'find 5'
        break
else:
    print 'can not find 5!'
#can not find 5!

来自文档:break和continue语句，以及循环中的else子句

Loop statements may have an else clause; it is executed when the loop terminates through exhaustion of the list (with for) or when the condition becomes false (with while), but not when the loop is terminated by a break statement. This is exemplified by the following loop, which searches for prime numbers: >>> for n in range(2, 10): ... for x in range(2, n): ... if n % x == 0: ... print(n, 'equals', x, '*', n//x) ... break ... else: ... # loop fell through without finding a factor ... print(n, 'is a prime number') ... 2 is a prime number 3 is a prime number 4 equals 2 * 2 5 is a prime number 6 equals 2 * 3 7 is a prime number 8 equals 2 * 4 9 equals 3 * 3 (Yes, this is the correct code. Look closely: the else clause belongs to the for loop, not the if statement.) When used with a loop, the else clause has more in common with the else clause of a try statement than it does that of if statements: a try statement’s else clause runs when no exception occurs, and a loop’s else clause runs when no break occurs. For more on the try statement and exceptions, see Handling Exceptions. The continue statement, also borrowed from C, continues with the next iteration of the loop: >>> for num in range(2, 10): ... if num % 2 == 0: ... print("Found an even number", num) ... continue ... print("Found a number", num) Found an even number 2 Found a number 3 Found an even number 4 Found a number 5 Found an even number 6 Found a number 7 Found an even number 8 Found a number 9

这里的else关键字可能会让人困惑，正如许多人指出的那样，像nobreak, notbreak这样的关键字更合适。

为了理解……其他的……从逻辑上讲，将它与try进行比较……Else，不是if…Else…，大多数python程序员都熟悉以下代码:

try:
    do_something()
except:
    print("Error happened.") # The try block threw an exception
else:
    print("Everything is find.") # The try block does things just find.

类似地，可以将break视为一种特殊的异常:

for x in iterable:
    do_something(x)
except break:
    pass # Implied by Python's loop semantics
else:
    print('no break encountered')  # No break statement was encountered

不同之处在于python暗示除了break，你不能把它写出来，所以它变成:

for x in iterable:
    do_something(x)
else:
    print('no break encountered')  # No break statement was encountered

是的，我知道这种比较可能会很困难和令人厌倦，但它确实澄清了困惑。