[Python-ideas] "While" suggestion

[Guido van Rossum]

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 7:10 PM, Talin <talin at acm.org> wrote:
> I'm actually more interested in the "as" clause being added to "if" rather
> than "while".

Thanks for the support. :-) The more examples we get suggesting that
this might also come in handy in other contexts the more ammo I have
against the request to add it *just* to the while loop. And adding it
everywhere is not an option, as has been explained previously.

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