while True or while 1

[Arnaud Delobelle]

Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> writes:

> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
>>>>>while True:
>>
>> ...     print "Looping"
>> ...     True = 0
>
> Just remember that if you use that inside a function, you'll
> have to initialise True to True before... er, wait a moment,
> that won't work... ah, I know:
>
>   def f(true = True):
>     True = true
>     while True:
>       ...
>       True = False

You also need to initialise False to False for it to be really
robust. So something like this will do.

    True = not 0
    False = not True
    while True:
        ...
        True = False

:)

-- 
Arnaud