newbie question

[Peter Hansen]

doodle4 at gmail.com wrote:
> What is the python equivalent of the following statement?
> 
> while (n--)
> 
> Thank you.

That depends on a number of things, including whether "n"
is declared as "volatile", and whether you consider the
above as an executable piece of code (it is not), or just a
code snippet...

Roughly but somewhat facetiously speaking, the answer is this:

n = -1

(Maybe describing what you are trying to accomplish would
be more useful than showing snippets of code without
explaining what you are expecting it to do.)

-Peter