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https://github.com/tukkek/notablepython#unconventional-else-blocks

I know this is not everyone's opinion, but in Brett Slatkin's book, "Effective Python", he recommends in Item #12 to "Avoid else Blocks After for and while loops", arguing that the results in some cases can be unexpected. The argument made a lot of sense to me.

Another fellow has a blog article about it here as well:
https://python-notes.curiousefficiency.org/en/latest/python_concepts/break_else.html

Obviously, someone thinks its a good idea, or it wouldn't be in the language. What do you think?

Done for the 3.x series. 2.x starts with https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/2.7.html

argparse is something of an abomination. If you're going to mention it, mention docopt too.

the standard for aligning output in version 3 is print("{:>_10}".format(hello)) rather than the listed print(hello.rjust(20))