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

[Marko Rauhamaa]

Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus at gmx.de>:

> Am 18.04.17 um 02:18 schrieb Ben Bacarisse:
>> Python opts for
>>
>>   while True:
>>      c = sys.stdin.read(1)
>>      if c != ' ': break
>
> This loop would be the archetypical do..while or repeat...until to me.
>
> do
> 	c = sys.stdin.read(1)
> while c== ' '

No, the code continues. You want to do something with c, right?

> is the most clear to me - and in fact this "while True; do something;
> break" thingy is just an idiom to fake a do..while loop in Python. C
> does have it, for example, and it is way better like this than the
> abuse of assignment and comma operator in the condition.

I do use

   do ... while

in my C code whenever a loop would end in a conditional break. I happens
exceedingly rarely, though.


Marko