Loop until condition is true

[Mike Meyer]

Stelios Xanthakis <sxanth at ceid.upatras.gr> writes:

> Michael Hoffman wrote:
>> Stelios Xanthakis wrote:
>>
>>> Magnus Lycka wrote:
>>  >
>>
>>>> Right. Silly me. Maybe in some future Python version, True and False
>>>> will be constants, like None is since Python 2.4.
>>>
>>>
>>> Actually, there is support in marshal to write True and False objects so
>>> I don't understand why this isn't in 2.4
>> Because it would break existing code.
>
> Yes.  Code that has variables named 'True' and 'False'.

Making None a constant broke existing code (and I just saw old code
that assigned to None). Are True and False that much more common as
variable names than None?

         <mike
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