[Fwd: while row = c.fetchone(): # syntax error???]

[Just van Rossum]

Pablo Prieto wrote:
> 
> > into the equivalent Python idiom:
> >
> >     while 1:
> >         row=c.fetchone()
> >         if not row: break
> >         doit(row)
> >
> > Alternatives abound, e.g:
> >
> > class valueWrapper:
> >     def set(self,value):
> >         self.value=value
> >         return value
> >
> > row=valueWrapper()
> >
> > while row.set(c.fetchone()):
> >     doit(row.value)
> >
> > Alex
> 
> How I do it:
> 
> t = c.fetchone()
> while t
>   --- # Very intelligent code goes here :)
>   t = c.fetchone()

And now for the "official" Python idiom, which avoids duplication of the
t = c.fetchone() line:

while 1:
    t = c.fetchone()
    if not t:
        break
    --- # Very intelligent code goes here :)


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