[Python-ideas] Is this PEP-able? for X in ListY while conditionZ:

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 25.06.2013 17:17, jimjhb at aol.com wrote:
> for X in ListY while conditionZ:
> 
> 
> The 'for' loop would proceed as long as conditionZ remains true.

It is not clear to me at what point in the for-loop you'd
run and check conditionZ.

IMO, this is much more readable and straight forward to understand:

for X in ListY:
    if not conditionZ:
        break
    pass

(and it should be to your CS teachers as well ;-))

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