The rap against "while True:" loops

[Aahz]

In article <mailman.1540.1255714251.2807.python-list at python.org>,
Tim Rowe  <digitig at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>The understood meaning of throwing an exception is to say "something
>happened that shouldn't have". If one uses it when something has
>happened that *should* have, because it happens to have the right
>behaviour (even if the overhead doesn't matter), then one is
>misrepresenting the program logic.

Except, of course, that your "understood meaning" is wrong for Python.
Perhaps you should go look up StopIteration.
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