while True or while 1
Dave Angel
d at davea.name
Mon Jan 23 08:02:30 EST 2012
On 01/22/2012 10:55 PM, alex23 wrote:
> On Jan 23, 2:05 am, Dan Sommers<d... at tombstonezero.net> wrote:
>> As per a now-ancient suggestion on this mailing list (I believe it was by
>> Tim Peters), I've also been known to use a non-empty, literal Python
>> string as a self-documenting, forever-True value in the typical loop-and-a-
>> half cnstruct:
>>
>> while "the temperature is too big":
> I don't think I've ever encountered this before, but I like it :)
> Cheers!
I do something similar when there's a portion of code that should never
be reached:
assert("reason why I cannot get here")
--
DaveA
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