do ... while loop

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <7u374b$8lm$1 at netnews.upenn.edu>,
Joshua Marcus <josh at linc.cis.upenn.edu> wrote:
>
>What is the %$*&@#!@ rationale behind not including a do...while control 
>structure in Python?
>
>I know you can simply work around it, e.g:
>
>line = "foo"
>while input != "":
>    line = fp.readline()
>    process(line)

What you really want is 

for line in fp.readlines() :
   process ( line )

There's the little matter that readlines() sucks the entire file into
memory, but it's great if you can live with that overhead.  There's also
a pending task to make it optionally "lazy", but that probably won't
happen until 2.0.
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