Re: [Python-ideas] Immemorial desire for "do-while"-like construction

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Jan Kaliszewskizuo@chopin.edu.pl wrote:

Hello,

The issue has been coming back repeatedly:

How we could elegantly and pythonic'ly avoid repeating ourselves if we need the control flow structure that e.g. in PASCAL has the form:

repeat ... until CONDITION

In Python we must use while-loop in not very DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) manner:

SOME ACTIONS HERE ... while CONDITION:      THE SAME      ACTIONS      AGAIN      ...

You can fix that by just writing it as:

while True: SOME ACTIONS HERE if not CONDITION: break

Cheers, Chris