Looping [was Re: Python and the need for speed]

[Marko Rauhamaa]

Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu>:

> On 4/17/2017 3:11 AM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>> Here's statistics from a medium-sized project of mine:
>>
>>    while True:            34
>>    while <condition>:     39
>>    for ... in ...:       158
>
> As I posted previously, the ratio of for-loops in the stdlib is about 7
> to 1.

What I notice in my numbers is that about one half of my while loops are
"while True", and about a third of my loops are while loops.


Marko