"else" considered harmful in Python?

Question

In an answer (by S.Lott) to a question about Python's try...else statement:

Actually, even on an if-statement, the else: can be abused in truly terrible ways creating bugs that are very hard to find. [...]

Think twice about else:. It is generally a problem. Avoid it except in an if-statement and even then consider documenting the else- condition to make it explicit.

Is this a widely held opinion? Is else considered harmful?

Of course you can write confusing code with it but that's true of any other language construct. Even Python's for...else seems to me a very handy thing to have (less so for try...else).

Answer 1

S.Lott has obviously seen some bad code out there. Haven't we all? I do not consider else harmful, though I've seen it used to write bad code. In those cases, all the surrounding code has been bad as well, so why blame poor else?