Assignment in a while?

[Duncan Booth]

none wrote:

> If I try to run the above code, I get a SyntaxError indicating that I 
> can't do an assignment in the while loop.  I found a way around this 
> (see the commented out while loop), but it seems hackish.  Assignment 
> within a while loop seems like a pretty standard thing, so I'm just 
> curious what I'm missing.
> 

Not much, you cannot assign to a variable in the controlling expression 
of a while loop. However, for loops do assign values to variables, so if 
the form with the break offends you, try restructuring your code as a for 
loop. For example:

for results in iter(sth.fetchone, None):
   print results

or in many cases you can just fetch everything in one go:

for results in sth.fetchall():
   print results