Using Workflowy to dissect a task into do-able bits

When you're finding yourself having trouble getting started with something on your to-do list, start subcategories under the main task, and include in it all the questions and obstacles you see, and then the sub-task questions and obstacles and tasks that exist under them. Keep creating the sub-tasks until you see the concrete things that you can do first. 

Create free lists like this at  https://workflowy.com/

python: Nonintuitive ELSE after FOR or WHILE

When I first saw an else clause after a for loop, I concluded that those were the steps to run if the condition inside the loop was never true-- that is, either you enter the loop or you do its else.
Wrong: Those are the steps to run if you exit the loop without a break statement. 

A better label would be NO_BREAK, but I understand not wanting to add keywords to the language. 

Test: Are the else steps executed when the loop is never entered?

for thing in ['abc','','tobreak','ok']:
    print "\nvertical [%s]" % thing
    for c in thing:
        print c
        if c=='r':
            break
    else:
        print "No r in [%s]" % thing
else:
    print "\nthat's all"

output

vertical [abc]
a
b
c
No r in [abc]

vertical []
No r in []

vertical [tobreak]
t
o
b
r

vertical [ok]
o
k
No r in [ok]

that's all

Process finished with exit code 0