well, yes, but I've always found while awkward in the common case -- and wanted a better way (maybe an until?).

using:

for a loop with a clear testable termination criteria always felt clunky.

Anyone recall the "canonical" way to loop through the lines of a file before we had the file iterator?

This is in fact, the only compeling use case for this to me -- maybe we could make a way to do an assign and test in a while loop enhancement just for that?

And no, I have no idea what that would look like -- I'm mostly joking.

So -1 on this -- though I agree -- great PEP Chris!

And -1, not -0 because I think this really would add one more complication to a language that used to be so simple, and still is (and should be) used a first programming language. I teach a lot of newbies, and I'm realy not l;ooking forward to one more way to do assignement. It starts simpel enough:

x = something

binds the name, "x" the the object, 'something' is bound to (or a literal)

Then we get into:

 - multiple assignment

 - tuple unpacking (oops, sequence unpacking),

 - augmented assignment

 - oh, that works different depending on whether the object is mutable

We don't need any more.

-CHB