while 1 vs while True

[Steve Holden]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:

> Steve Holden wrote:
> 
> 
>>It was unfortunate that so many people chose to use that for compatibility, when if they'd used 
>>the same code that the win32all extensions did they could have retained backward compatibility 
>>even across a change to constants:
>>
>>try:
>>    True
>>except AttributeError:
>>    True, False = (1==1), (1!=1)
> 
> 
> that doesn't work, though:
> 
> $ python2.1 test.py
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "test.py", line 2, in ?
>     True
> NameError: name 'True' is not defined
> 
Well, OK. But, lest people should think the worse of win32all because of 
my laziness in not finding the exact quote, I should point out that the 
code I meant to quote actually says:

# Pre 2.2.1 compat.
try: True, False
except NameError: True = 1==1; False = 1==0

I believe this should work for all versions up to 2.4, and would also 
work with a 2.5 that made True and False constants. But if anyone can 
prove me wrong it would be you ... :-)

regards
  Steve
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