No Do while/repeat until looping construct in python?

Erik Max Francis max at alcyone.com
Tue Mar 11 23:39:35 EST 2003


Lars W wrote:

>         Why is there no do-while looping construct in Python?
> It seems to me that such a feature is very useful.

The customary way to do this in Python is

	while 1: # or while True in Python 2.2+
	    doSomething
	    if terminateCondition:
	        break
	    doSomeMore

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