No Do while/repeat until looping construct in python?

Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de) me at privacy.net
Sun Mar 16 22:26:54 EST 2003


Evan Simpson wrote:
> Someone (I forget who, sorry) recently pointed out a cute use of 
> line-continuation that could help here:
> 
> while 1:
>     # some code
>     # blah
>     if all_done:\
> break
>     # more code

This isn't quite the same thing, since although
it certainly makes the "break" prominent, it
doesn't do the same for the condition guarding
it.

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg





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