No Do while/repeat until looping construct in python?

Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de) me at privacy.net
Wed Mar 12 20:21:19 EST 2003


Alexander Skwar wrote:
> Well, actually I don't think it's so terribly useful - actually I hardly
> ever use it in languages which support it and thus don't miss it in
> Python.

I agree. It's much more common to want an exit condition
in the *middle* -- something I think the language *could*
do with some syntactic support for (beyond "break").

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg





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