Thanks, Steven.
Those links led to the complete discussions, including this one with a
"loop:" keyword.
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2014-June/028202.html
In short "while:" won't likely ever make it, and adding new keywords to
Python only happens on a _absolute-need_ basis.
See my post a month ago (29 September) in the archive with links
to some related discussions. Subject "while: for the loop".
(I don't have access to the archive now so I can't link to the post)
One proposal was exactly about the "loop" keyword:
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2014-J
On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 07:37:32PM -0400, Juancarlo Añez wrote:
> A `loop:` statement to replace `while True:` has probably been discussed at
> length more than once.
>
> Does anyone keep links to the discussions?
Google :-)
This might get you started:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Mikhail+loop+si
