[Python-ideas] Special keyword denoting an infinite loop

Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Mon Jun 30 20:20:30 CEST 2014


On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 01:24:37PM -0400, random832 at fastmail.us wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 28, 2014, at 06:05, Stefan Behnel wrote:
> > Adding a new keyword needs very serious reasoning, and that's a good
> > thing.
[...]
> What about _just_ "while:" or "for:"?

Why bother? Is there anything you can do with a bare "while:" that you 
can't do with "while True:"? If not, what's the point?


-- 
Steven


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