do...while

[Michael P. Soulier]

On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 10:42:56AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> 
> On 20-Jun-2002 Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> >     Greetings.
> > 
> >     How do you people handle the lack of a do...while in Python? I find that
> > at times, I must initialize variables for a loop with identical code to the
> > loop, which feels like a waste to me. 
> > 
> > ie.
> > 
> >     line = filehandle.readline()
> >     while len(line) > 5:
> >         line = filehandle.readline()
> > 
> >     A do...while here would be nice. 
> > 
> >     Just curious. 
> > 
> 
> while 1:
>     line = filehandle.readline()
>     if len(line) <= 5: break
>     ....
>     ....
> 
> is a typical way to implement it.

    Right, I've used that in the past. It doesn't seem nearly as clean though,
as making the conditions for terminating the loop plain in the loop
declaration. Considering the Python community's leaning towards readable code,
necessitating a break for code factoring goes against that philosophy. 

    Mike

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