Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 13:57:11 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > >> chad <cdal...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> while 1: >> >> A minor point: this is more explanatory and less misleading if you write >> it as ‘while True’. > > Why is it misleading? Is there some circumstance in Python where the > literal 1 could have a false value?
Wrong question. >>> while True: ... print "forever" ... >>> True 0 So, if I were to play advocatus diaboli I'd argue that 'while True: ...' is more likely to mislead because 'True' could be anything. Peter PS: The above is no longer possible in Python 3 where True and False have become keywords. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
