Andrea Crotti wrote:
I see sometimes in other people code "while 1" instead of "while True". I think using True is more pythonic, but I wanted to check if there is any difference in practice.
No (with the exception of `True` and `False` being rebinable in Python 2). The idiomatic `while 1` notation comes from back in the pre-Boolean days. In any reasonably modern implementation, `while True` is more self-documenting. I would imagine the primary reason people still do it, any after-the-fact rationalizations aside, is simply habit.
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