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Mon Apr 16 23:00:09 EDT 2001 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-April/093386.html

On Mon, 16 Apr 2001 22:43:10 -0400, "Andrew Henshaw"
<andrew_dot_henshaw_at_earthling_dot_net> wrote in comp.lang.python in article
<tdnbgap8tkpce6 at corp.supernews.com>:

:However, I have advocated that 'do' as an
:alias for 'while 1', would be cleaner, more elegant, and simpler to grasp
:for new programmers (e.g., children).
:
:Therefore, in a half-attempt to answer your question, I believe that most
:Pythonic implementation of do-until would be:
:
:do:
:    some code
:    if condition:
:        break

But, as already mentioned in this thread, the word "do" doesn't necessarily
imply looping.

Wouldn't this be even more preferable?

loop:
    some code
    if condition:
        break

--
Sheila King
http://www.thinkspot.net/sheila/
http://www.k12groups.org/

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