while true: !!!

[Greg Ewing]

Carel Fellinger wrote:
> I ... would have prefered (I think) something like:
> 
> loop: suite
> break <condition>: suite
> ...

Last time I thought about this, I decided that
I would like something along the lines of

   while:
     line = f.readline()
   gives line != '':
     process(line)

Alas, it would require a new keyword, making it
forever excluded from the idyllic Garden of Python
(before Py3k, anyway).

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