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

[Moshe Zadka]

On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Thomas Gagne wrote:

> At the top of a while, the value of the function c.fetchone() is what I want
> to evaluate, but I need to save the return value.  Whenever I try to code this
> I get a syntax error--python doesn't seem to like the assignment in the
> conditional.  No amount of parens seem to make a difference.

That's because assignment is a statement, not an expression. 

Try, instead,

	while 1:
		row = c.fetchone()
		if not row:
			break
		pass

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