No Do while/repeat until looping construct in python?

[John Hunter]

>>>>> "Lars" == Lars W <lw at hot-shot.com> writes:

    Lars> Hello!  Why is there no do-while looping construct in
    Lars> Python?  It seems to me that such a feature is very
    Lars> useful. Consider the following pseduocode:

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John Hunter