[Python-Dev] PEP 3142: Add a "while" clause to generator expressions

[Nick Coghlan]

Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 21Jan2009 14:02, Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com> wrote:
> | Vitor Bosshard wrote:
> | > BTW, there is already an "until" keyword in python, it's called "while not" ;)
> | 
> | 'until' is used at least in some languages (Pascal, Modula*, maybe Ada?)
> | for a "terminate at bottom" loop (one guaranteed to run at least once):
> |  in such cases, the predicate has the negative sense.
> 
> This is a particular flavour of "do ... while" which just happens
> to read a little better in English. It does sometimes bother me that
> Python doesn't have do...while when I find my self replicating the loop
> bottom above the loop.

Adding a do-while construct to Python has already been proposed:
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0315/

It was merely deferred due to only garnering lukewarm support and lack
of a reference implementation rather than actually being rejected:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-February/060718.html

Cheers,
Nick.

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