Joseph Garvin wrote: > Peter Otten wrote: > >> I found 136 occurrences of "do {" versus 754 of "while (" and 1224 of >> "for >> (" in the Python 2.4 source, so using these rough estimates do-while >> still >> qualifies as "rarely used". >> >> Peter >> >> >> > That's 136 times you'd have to use an ugly hack instead. I definitely > wouldn't mind an until or do/while.
Yeah a do while loop was proposed over 2 years ago, but nothing ever came of it: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0315.html It's been discussed for many many years, and again recently: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-June/054167.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list