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

[Bengt Richter]

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
or

    for x in aList:
        print 'Item %2d: %s' % (for.index, x)

I'm not serious, I think ;-)

Regards,
Bengt Richter