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>># pseudo code >>i=2 >>lst=[i**=2 while i<1000] >> >>of course this could be easily rewritten into >>i=2 >>lst=[] >>while i<1000: >> i**=2 >> lst.append(i) >> > > > Neither of these loops would terminate until memory is exhausted. Do you > have a use case for a 'while' in a list comprehension which would > terminate? unless I am missing something obvious, I can not see why the loop should not terminate sure pseudo code is not executable but the other one works while tests the boolean expression first then decides whether to execute the body or not, in particular no next-iterator is involved(??) as it would be in lst=range(5) for i in lst: del lst[0] Regards, Daniel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list