repeat/while?

[Russell Nelson]

Is there any enthusiasm for repeat/while in Python?  It would replace the following ideom:

while 1:
    line = sys.stdin.readline()
    if not line: break
    pass  # handle line here

with this:

repeat:
    line = sys.stdin.readline()
while line:
    pass  # handle line here

Semantics are unchanged.  If Python had a goto, it could also be
expressed like this:

goto entrypoint
while line:
    pass  # handle line here
entrypoint:
    line = sys.stdin.readline()

Or should I write this up as a PEP?

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