MonkeeSage wrote: > I don't think python has any equivalent (could be wrong).
a trivial combination of while and try/except/else does the trick: n = 0 while 1: try: # do something print n n = n + 1 # make sure it fails a couple of times if n < 10: raise ValueError except ValueError: pass # retry else: break # done -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list