On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 10:11 AM, R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com> wrote:
> I've written a PEP proposing a small enhancement to the Python loop
> control statements. Short version: here's what feels to me like a
> Pythonic way to spell "repeat until":
>
> while:
> <do stuff>
> break if <done condition>
>
> The PEP goes into some detail on why this feels like a readability
> improvement in the more general case, with examples taken from
> the standard library:
>
> https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0548/
Is "break if" legal in loops that have their own conditions as well,
or only in a bare "while:" loop? For instance, is this valid?
while not found_the_thing_we_want:
data = sock.read()
break if not data
process(data)
Or this, which uses the condition purely as a descriptor:
while "moar socket data":
data = sock.read()
break if not data
process(data)
Also - shouldn't this be being discussed first on python-ideas?
ChrisA
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