It could've easily been defined that the else branch runs if the while condition...

thaumasiotes · 2025-12-07T18:48:33 1765133313

What are you trying to say? It is defined that way. And the example I provided above makes that completely explicit.

But here, from the official documentation:

> if the expression is false (which may be the first time it is tested) the suite of the else clause, if present, is executed and the loop terminates.

https://docs.python.org/3/reference/compound_stmts.html#the-...