for/else ... for/elif?

[Skaperen]

an else: can follow a loop to handle the case of no break statements being done in that loop. but if the first thing that needs to be done in that else: block is an if statement, can that be coded as an elif statement instead of an else: followed by an (indented) if?

[Gribouillis]

The answer (no) is in this part of the documentation of python's syntax.

[Skaperen]

thanks. i do remember seeing some language long ago which implemented elif by rebuilding the code. i don't think it had else for loops but if it did, coding elif would have created the else block and the if block, so it would have worked there. i just didn't know if Python could have been doing the same kind of thing.