You might want to note in the PEP that the problem that's being solved is known as the "loop and a half" problem. http://www.cs.duke.edu/~ola/patterns/plopd/loops.html#loop-and-a-half raymond.hettinger wrote:

Author: raymond.hettinger Date: Sun Apr 26 02:34:36 2009 New Revision: 71946

Log: Revive PEP 315.

Modified: peps/trunk/pep-0315.txt

Modified: peps/trunk/pep-0315.txt ============================================================================== --- peps/trunk/pep-0315.txt (original) +++ peps/trunk/pep-0315.txt Sun Apr 26 02:34:36 2009 @@ -2,9 +2,9 @@ Title: Enhanced While Loop Version: $Revision$ Last-Modified: $Date$ -Author: W Isaac Carroll - Raymond Hettinger -Status: Deferred +Author: Raymond Hettinger + W Isaac Carroll +Status: Draft Type: Standards Track Content-Type: text/plain Created: 25-Apr-2003 _______________________________________________ Python-checkins mailing list Python-checkins@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-checkins