No Do while/repeat until looping construct in python?

[Erik Max Francis]

"Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de)" wrote:

> And this is *such* a common looping pattern that I really
> don't understand why *no* language I can remember seeing
> has explicit support for it.

Indeed.  Most applications of do...while structures I can think of
seeing and using are actually of this form, and often emulate it with
something like (C):

	do
	{
	    ... pre code ...
	    if (test)
	    {
	        ... post code ...
	    }
	} while (test);

Other than just general lack of utility (you already have the structure
easily enough with while True and a break), I think the main aesthetic
reason it would be hard to add a
do...while/repeat...until/whatever...whatever structure is the
awkwardness of having two blocks as a fundamental part of some
structure:

	repeat:
	    statements
	while condition

looks obnoxious through my Pythonic secret decoder glasses.

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