Does anyone else use this little idiom?

[Ivan Illarionov]

On Feb 4, 12:56 am, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <bj_... at gmx.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 05:33:16 -0800, Ivan Illarionov wrote:
> > Plain Python function are very often more powerful than classes:
>
> >>>> def go(count):
> > ...   if not hasattr(go, 'count'):
> > ...     go.count = count
> > ...   if go.count <= 0:
> > ...     del go.count
> > ...     return False
> > ...   go.count -= 1
> > ...   return True
> > ...
> >>>> while go(3):
> > ...   print 'hello'
> > ...
> > hello
> > hello
> > hello
>
> Please try:
>
> while go(3):
>     while go(3):
>         print 'Think about it...'
>
> Ciao,
>         Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch

> Please try:
>
> while go(3):
>     while go(3):
>         print 'Think about it...'

This doesn't work with nested loops as well as Go(count) and again().
I use 'for i in range(3)'. IMO it's good to name an index variable
even if it's not used inside the loop - it has the noble purpose of
being a loop index and therefore it is not 'dummy' in any way :).