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Mon May 22 21:20:12 CEST 2006 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-May/065114.html

Niko Matsakis <niko at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> 
> > I saw them. Your brain must be wired very differently
> > to mine, because I find loops with a continue in them
> > harder to follow than ones without -- exactly the
> > opposite of what you seem to prefer.
> 
> Delurking for no particular reason:
> 
> For what it's worth, I also favor the continue syntax Heiko compared  
> his code against.  Without it, you have to scroll to the end of the  
> loop to know whether  there is an else clause; it also allows you to  

One could also consider documenting the fact that there is no else
clause...

    for i in ...:
        if ...: #no else clause
            ...

 - Josiah

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Unification of for statement and list-comp syntax