I don't get why sys.exit(1) doesn't exit the while loop in the follow case

[Ben Finney]

Steven D'Aprano <steve-REMOVE-THIS at cybersource.com.au> writes:

> Why is it misleading? Is there some circumstance in Python where the 
> literal 1 could have a false value?

It's misleading as to the intent.

> "while 1" was the accepted idiom for infinite loops in Python for many 
> years, before the introduction of bools in (I think) Python 2.2.
[…]

Right. Now that we have boolean literals, they're semantically clearer
when the semantic value one is testing is boolean, not integer.

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Ben Finney