Extension of while syntax

[Marko Rauhamaa]

Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com>:

> You could deduplicate it by shifting the condition:
>
> while True:
>     value = get_some_value()
>     if value not in undesired_values: break
>
> But I'm not sure how common this idiom actually is.

Extremely common, and not only in Python.


Marko