Looping constructs

[beej at piratehaven.org]

In article <3C2602B3.47EA5685 at engcorp.com>,
Peter Hansen  <peter at engcorp.com> wrote:
>I, for one, find it much easier to start my loop
>with "while 1:" and then stick the logic where it needs
>to be with "if xxxx: break"

Do you ever have a "while 0:" loop?  Of course not.  So why is there
even a conditional in there at all?  Shouldn't Python just have a:

foreverloop:  # do-while, repeat-until
	do_stuff()
	if condition: break

foreverloop:  # while
	if condition: break
	do_stuff()

No, because that's ugly.  (Or maybe yes because it's minimalistic?)

I'm one of those Python newcomers who thinks the set of looping
statements is a little too rarified. :)  But whatever, I'll keep using
it.

-Beej, sure I'm covering old ground