while True or while 1

[Grant Edwards]

On 2010-12-12, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:

> With the "while True" idiom in Python 2.x, you can easily exit out of an 
> infinite loop without using break:
>
>>>> while True:
> ...     print "Looping"
> ...     True = 0
> ...
> Looping
>>>>
>>>> while True:  # Execute an infinite loop in 0 seconds.
> ...     print "Looping"
> ...
>>>>
>
> *wink*

Sadly, I've seen people do stuff like that in real programs...

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