'foot' controlled loop in python ??

[Gerhard Häring]

Axel Kowald <kowald at molgen.mpg.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> I got recently into Python and I like it a lot. However, I haven't found 
> a loop contruct that is 'foot' controlled, i.e. something like 'do 
> until' or 'repeat while'. Am I overlooking something or is there no such 
> thing ?

There is none. A possible workaround:

while 1:
    # loop body

    if ...:
        break

> And if not maybe that could be a suggestion for Python 2.3 ??

It's been discussed a few times in the past. See
http://groups.google.de/groups?hl=de&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=python+do+until

There's probably also no clean syntax that's consistent with the rest of
Python.
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