New (?) suggestion re: 'while x = f(): ...'

[Duncan Booth]

Jeff Epler <jepler at unpythonic.net> wrote in 
news:mailman.1022680666.24622.python-list at python.org:

>> 'H' is spelled 'iter' and already exists.
> 
> Not quite -- H will stop on "any false value", while iter(f, "") will
> stop on a single value.

I think this is similar to the difference between except with a specific 
exception, and except to catch any exception. The normal case should be to 
know what the termination condition is. (Explicit is better than implicit.)

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Duncan Booth                                             duncan at rcp.co.uk
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