On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 11:50 PM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 3:36 PM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> while True: >> if we_are_done(): >> break >> # do some stuff >> ... >> if error_occurred(): >> break >> notify_user() >> >> >> Fixed, using idiomatic Python and without needing to use assignment in >> an expression. > > Why is it that "while True" is idiomatic Python for a non-infinite > loop? Is it merely because Python currently has no other way to spell > certain loops? Surely it would be more idiomatic to encode the loop's > termination condition in the header, if it were possible.
In the case of the code above you're correct; the condition could be moved directly into the while. The loop that I adapted first assigned we_are_done() to flag and then asserted that flag would be checked again later. I neglected to maintain this part when I rewrote it. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
