On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 12:38:40 pm Brandon Hayden wrote:
> In the Python language, or any other language for that matter, I have
>  never understood why they don't have a loop function. Here's what I 
> mean, every time someone wants something to repeat itself, they have
> to  write a while loop like this:
>
> x = 0
> while x < 10:
>     function()
>     x = x + 1

Perhaps you should learn a little more Python before criticising it. The 
idiomatic way to write the above is:

for x in range(10):
    function()


Anyway, this is the wrong forum for this discussion. If you're still 
interested in it, please take it to comp.lang.python or 
tu...@python.org.



-- 
Steven D'Aprano
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