Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> More than case-statement semantics or PEP343, I wish for a dowhile
> statement.
>
> The most straight-forward way is to put the conditional expression at
> the beginning of the block with the understanding that a dowhile keyword
> will evaluate the condition only after the block runs
Out-of-order code execution rarely counts as 'straightforward' ;)
With PEP 315, a do-while loop would look like:
do:
<body>
while <cond>:
pass
But then, I'm reasonably happy with the 'break out of an infinite
loop' approach, so *shrug*.
Cheers,
Nick.
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