PEP 276 (was Re: Status of PEP's?)

[Bengt Richter]

On 9 Mar 2002 21:29:09 GMT, bokr at oz.net (Bengt Richter) wrote:

>On Sat, 9 Mar 2002 13:09:39 +0000, philh at comuno.freeserve.co.uk (phil hunt) wrote:
>[...]
>>
>>One possibility might be a new looping construct, do:
>>
>>   do 5:
>>      print "this will be printed 5 times"
>>
>>Note that you can't get hold of a do loop's loop variable. This 
>>would be easy to optimise, I imagine.
>
>Well, since we're messing with the language,
>keywords could have attributes, e.g.,
>
>    do 5:
>        print "index from the do: %d", do.index
Oops,
    do 5:
        print "index from the do: %d" % do.index
or
    do 5:
        print "index from the do:", do.index

>or
>
>    for x in aList:
>        print 'Item %2d: %s' % (for.index, x)
>
>I'm not serious, I think ;-)
>
>Regards,
>Bengt Richter
>