On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 16:33:41 +0100, Krister Svanlund wrote: > On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Max Countryman <m...@me.com> wrote: >> I'm sure this has been brought up many times, but a quick Googling >> didn't yield the decisive results I was hoping for, so I apologize if >> this has already been addressed in great detail somewhere else. >> >> I am wondering what the rationale is behind preferring while True over >> while 1? For me, it seems that using True provides more clarity, but is >> that the only benefit? Is while 1 more prone to errors? > > It's just silly to use 1 since it will evaluate to True either way.
With the "while True" idiom in Python 2.x, you can easily exit out of an infinite loop without using break: >>> while True: ... print "Looping" ... True = 0 ... Looping >>> >>> while True: # Execute an infinite loop in 0 seconds. ... print "Looping" ... >>> *wink* -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
