[Tutor] continuous running of a method

[bob gailer]

  On 8/23/2010 1:00 AM, Greg Bair wrote:
> I have a method (I'll call it foo) that will either return None or an 
> object depending on a random value generated.  What I want to happen 
> is that if I call foo(), i.e, f = foo() and it returns None, to 
> re-call it until it returns something else.  I would think this would 
> be done with a while loop, but can't seem to get the details right.

Even though a while will work, you will have tied up the CPU until the 
loop terminates. This is never a good idea.

What is your higher level goal?

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Bob Gailer
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