[issue31156] Stopiteration terminates while-loop

Günter Rote added the comment: Sorry, that was my misinterpretation of what happened. I had been stumbling over an old program I had written, but apparently it works because the while-loop is inside a generator function, and the StopIteration is simply passed on. Here is a small demonstration

[issue31156] Stopiteration terminates while-loop

R. David Murray added the comment: >>> while True: ... raise StopIteration ... Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 2, in StopIteration -- nosy: +r.david.murray ___ Python tracker

[issue31156] Stopiteration terminates while-loop

New submission from Günter Rote: It should be mentioned in the documentation that A StopIteration exception raised in the body of a while loop will terminate (and is caught by) the while-loop, thus leading to graceful termination. A good place would be here: 1)