Loop-and-a-half (Re: Curious assignment behaviour)

[Greg Ewing]

Paul Rubin wrote:
> 
> I feel seriously cramped in Python when I have to say
> 
>   while 1:
>      x=get_next()
>      if not x: break
>      whatever(x)

I feel the solution to this is *not* to go in for
any sort of assignment-in-expressions hackery, but
to provide a decent loop-and-a-half control structure.
My current idea for this is

  while:
    x = get_next()
  gives x:
    whatever(x)

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