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Mon Apr 16 15:07:11 EDT 2001 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-April/107364.html

Your right. Having an 'until' at the other end like that won't work...

Steve Lamb wrote:

> On Mon, 16 Apr 2001 13:22:36 -0400, Benjamin.Altman <benjamin.altman at noaa.gov>
> wrote:
> >Ugliness aside, it would work since it is dependant on indentation.  In your
> >example you
> >would have to do:
> >    while cond():
> >        #bla
> >        #bla
> >        #bla
> >
> >            #do some stuff
> >        until cond2()
> >
>
>     Please, no jeopardy quoting, it makes it hard to keep a discussion
> readable.
>
> >> Benjamin.Altman <benjamin.altman at noaa.gov> wrote in comp.lang.python:
>
> >> So how would you put that after another block?
> >>
> >> while cond():
> >>    #bla
> >>    #bla
> >>    #bla
> >>
> >>    #do some stuff
> >> until cond2()
>
>     No, he was asking a very valid question.  Take the following example.
>
> for x in y:
>     do_something()
> while(1):
>     do_another_thing()
>     if condition:
>         break
>
>     Well, since we're discussing taking a while(1):...break and turning it
> into a do..until /and/ your suggestion is to do a reverse off the until
> keyword now translate the above block into your proposed syntax.
>
> for x in y:
>     do_something()
>     do_another_thing()
> until cond()
>
>     Uhm, how do you tell the two loops apart?  AFAICT, he was not asking about
> one loop nested inside another, he was asking about one loop following
> another.
>
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