The problem with this while loop is if your random value doesn't lie between the mentioned range then ur 100% cpu would be utilized. The one thing u can do is to sleep for some time lets say 0.5 sec after every while loop iteration , in this case ur cpu utilization will go down.<div>
<br></div><div>--nitin <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 8:21 PM, bob gailer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bgailer@gmail.com">bgailer@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im"> On 8/23/2010 1:00 AM, Greg Bair wrote:<br>
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I have a method (I'll call it foo) that will either return None or an object depending on a random value generated. What I want to happen is that if I call foo(), i.e, f = foo() and it returns None, to re-call it until it returns something else. I would think this would be done with a while loop, but can't seem to get the details right.<br>
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Even though a while will work, you will have tied up the CPU until the loop terminates. This is never a good idea.<br>
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What is your higher level goal?<div class="im"><br>
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