[Python-ideas] "While" suggestion

[Raymond Hettinger]

From: "BJörn Lindqvist" <bjourne at gmail.com>
>  I would definitely prefer a do-until or do-while construct instead.

I co-authored a PEP for a do-while construct and it died solely because we couldn't find a good pythonic syntax.  The proposed 
while-as construct will neatly solve some of the use cases -- the rest will have to live with what we've got.


Raymond