Use of a variable in parent loop

[MRAB]

On 2020-09-28 03:53, Stephane Tougard via Python-list wrote:
> On 2020-09-27, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Or maybe Emacs *isn't* breaking it, and it's just an autoindentation
>> thing. I don't know.
> 
>   From the discussion I read about this feature, it considers that 'pass' is
> use to write an empty def()
> 
> def();
> 	pass
> 
> So it's logic for it to indent one level up after a 'pass' because the people
> who made it did not see any other usage to 'pass' than that.
> 
> if True:
> 	pass
> 	print("It's true")
> 
> The 'pass' is totally useless by itself, it can be replaced by a comment.
> 
It's used where the language requires a statement.

In, say, C, you would use empty braces:

     while (process_next_item()) {
         /* Do nothing. */
     }

In Python that would be:

     while process_next_item():
         # Do nothing.
         pass