On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 4:06 PM, Christian Gollwitzer <aurio...@gmx.de> wrote:
> Am 18.04.17 um 02:18 schrieb Ben Bacarisse:
>
>> Thanks (and to Grant). IO seems to be the canonical example. Where
>> some languages would force one to write
>>
>> c = sys.stdin.read(1)
>> while c == ' ':
>> c = sys.stdin.read(1)
>>
>> Python opts for
>>
>> while True:
>> c = sys.stdin.read(1)
>> if c != ' ': break
>
>
> This loop would be the archetypical do..while or repeat...until to me.
>
> do
> c = sys.stdin.read(1)
> while c== ' '
>
>
> -or-
>
> repeat
> c = sys.stdin.read(1)
> until c != ' '
Except that there's processing code after it.
while True:
c = sys.stdin.read(1)
if not c: break
if c.isprintable(): text += c
elif c == "\x08": text = text[:-1]
# etc
Can you write _that_ as a do-while?
ChrisA
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