why no "do : until"?

[Bill Anderson]

Bjorn Pettersen wrote:
> 
> Peter Hansen wrote:
> 
> > Bjorn Pettersen wrote:
> > > and you'll have half a dozen people jumping on your back telling you that
> > > "while 1" is simple, intuitive, and is the only Pythonic way to do things
> > > (you'll have half a dozen other people trying to come up with some clever
> > > wrapper to solve the problem they think you have <wink>).
> >
> > That's hardly being fair.  I just checked back on the entire thread up
> > to this point and, while I may have missed something, it doesn't appear
> > that _anyone_ suggested 'while 1' is either simple or intuitive.
> 
> You forget how many of these we have a year... I believe the October/Novemeber
> one included that comment. 

Yes but that was last year. ;^)=

> Are you saying you don't think "while 1" is neither
> simple nor intuitive? (I think it's simple, but definitely not intuitive ;-)

I believe all he is saying is that nobody in this thread said it was.


tongue-in-cheekly-y'rs 

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