[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > First off let me state that I really enjoy using Python. I am a 3rd > year student and have been using python for 3 months, (thanks to > trac!). I do not consider myself an experienced or clever programmer, > but I am able to get by. > > Something I love about Python is that almost everything you do can be > written in pseudo code then carried across into Python without a great- > deal of difference. > > But reading through the warts and reading about a lack of "do while > statements" I also started to ponder about the "'do something' if > 'true' else 'do this'", and pondered if perhaps this statement could > do with the including of the keyword do. > > It would clear up the usage of such a statement because it would read > happily. Or am I making a mountain out of an ant hill?
I doubt this will gain any traction. Similar proposals have been made before - e.g. http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0315/ But they didn't There are a few tricks you can use to emulate the desired behavior without being to disruptive to the eye. E.g. while True: do_something() if condition: break Granted, do do_something()( while condition is a bit more pleasant - but not enough to change the language I'd say. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
