Phillip J. Eby wrote:

> By the way, whatever happened to "and while"?  i.e.:
> 
>      while True:
>          data = inp.read(blocksize)
>      and while data:
>          out.write(data)

My favourite version of this is

   while:
     data = inp.read(blocksize)
   gives data:
     out.write(data)

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