On Jun 26, 2017 2:15 AM, "Chris Angelico" <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 4:08 PM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: >> If we wanted to allow that to be expressed literally, we could >> probably special case the "while not break" keyword sequence as a do >> loop: >> >> while not break: >> # Setup >> if condition: break >> # Loop continuation > > > We would then also need 'while not return:' And for completeness, "while not throw:" All these situations could be handled by making a "while:" with no condition act as "while True:" But they could also be handled by updating pep8 to make "while True:" the recommended infinite loop syntax and make linters smarter about this (if they aren't already).
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