[Python-ideas] "While" suggestion

Bruce Leban bruce at leapyear.org
Thu Jul 3 22:34:15 CEST 2008


And it doesn't do that! It only replaces that when <setup> is a simple
assignment.

PEP 315 suggested:

  do:
    <setup>
  while <expression>:
    <stuff>

which does cover the general scenario.


On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Stavros Korokithakis <
stavros at korokithakis.net> wrote:

> I don't know where this "while True" concept snuck in, the proposal isn't
> supposed to replace those, it's supposed to replace this:
>
> <setup>
> while <expression>"
>    <stuff>
>    <setup>
>
> Stavros
>
>
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