简单来说，你可以这样想;

如果它在for循环中遇到break命令，else部分将不会被调用。 如果在for循环中没有遇到break命令，则调用else部分。

换句话说，如果for循环迭代没有被break“打断”，else部分将被调用。

这里是搜索之外的另一个惯用用例。假设您希望等待一个条件为真，例如，远程服务器上的一个端口打开，并伴有一些超时。然后你可以利用一点时间…其他结构如下:

import socket
import time

sock = socket.socket()
timeout = time.time() + 15
while time.time() < timeout:
    if sock.connect_ex(('127.0.0.1', 80)) is 0:
        print('Port is open now!')
        break
    print('Still waiting...')
else:
    raise TimeoutError()

我认为文档对else有很好的解释，继续

[…当循环因列表耗尽而终止(使用for)或当条件变为false(使用while)时执行，但当循环由break语句终止时不执行。”

来源:Python 2文档:控制流教程

你可以这样想， 其他的东西，或者其他的东西，不是在循环中完成的。

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

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。