我理解这种结构是如何运作的:

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

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

但我不明白为什么在这里使用else作为关键字,因为它表明有问题的代码只在for块未完成时运行,这与它所做的相反!无论我怎么想,我的大脑都不能从for语句无缝地过渡到else语句块。对我来说,continue和continuouswith更有意义(我正试着训练自己这样读它)。

我想知道Python程序员是如何在头脑中(或者大声地,如果你喜欢)阅读这个结构的。也许我遗漏了一些可以使这些代码块更容易破译的东西?


这个问题是关于底层设计决策的,也就是说,为什么能够编写这些代码是有用的。另请参阅Python while语句中的Else子句,了解语法含义的具体问题。


当前回答

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。

其他回答

else子句在循环正常完成后执行。这意味着The:==> 只有当循环没有被break语句终止时,才会在for/while语句之后执行else块

for item in lista:
if(obj == item ):
    print("if True then break will run and else not run")
    break;
else:
print("in  else => obj not fount ")

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。

我是这样读的:

如果还在运行循环的条件下,做点别的,否则做点别的。

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。

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