for i in range(3):
    print(i)

    if i == 2:
        print("Too big - I'm giving up!")
        break;
else:
    print("Completed successfully")

"else"在这里非常简单，意思是

1、“if for从句是完整的”

for i in range(3):
    print(i)

    if i == 2:
        print("Too big - I'm giving up!")
        break;
if "for clause is completed":
    print("Completed successfully")

写“for从句已完成”这样长的语句是很笨拙的，所以他们引入了“else”。

否则这里本质上是一个如果。

2、然而，How about for从句根本没有出现

In [331]: for i in range(0):
     ...:     print(i)
     ...: 
     ...:     if i == 9:
     ...:         print("Too big - I'm giving up!")
     ...:         break
     ...: else:
     ...:     print("Completed successfully")
     ...:     
Completed successfully

所以这完全是逻辑组合:

if "for clause is completed" or "not run at all":
     do else stuff

或者这样说:

if "for clause is not partially run":
    do else stuff

或者这样:

if "for clause not encounter a break":
    do else stuff

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

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
----------

我只是想让自己重新理解一下。我发现下面的方法很有用!

•将else看作是与循环中的if配对(而不是与for配对)-如果条件满足，则打破循环，否则执行此操作-除非它是与多个if配对的else ! •如果所有的“如果”都不满足，那么就做“其他”。 •多个如果实际上也可以被认为是if-elifs!

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

一个常见的构造是运行一个循环，直到找到一些东西，然后跳出循环。问题是，如果我跳出循环或循环结束，我需要确定发生了哪种情况。一种方法是创建一个标志或存储变量，让我进行第二次测试，以查看循环是如何退出的。

例如，假设我需要在列表中搜索并处理每个项，直到找到标志项，然后停止处理。如果缺少标志项，则需要引发异常。

使用Python进行…你的其他构念

for i in mylist:
    if i == theflag:
        break
    process(i)
else:
    raise ValueError("List argument missing terminal flag.")

将此方法与不使用此语法糖的方法进行比较:

flagfound = False
for i in mylist:
    if i == theflag:
        flagfound = True
        break
    process(i)

if not flagfound:
    raise ValueError("List argument missing terminal flag.")

在第一种情况下，raise与它所使用的for循环紧密绑定。第二种情况是，绑定不那么牢固，在维护过程中可能会出现错误。