On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 1:52 PM, <jim...@aol.com> wrote:
> Syntax:
>
> fwhile X in ListY and conditionZ:
>
> The following would actually exactly as: for X in ListY:
>
> fwhile X in ListY and True:
>
> fwhile would act much like 'for', but would stop if the condition after the
> 'and' is no longer True.
>
> The motivation is to be able to make use of all the great aspects of the
> python 'for' (no indexing or explict
> end condition check, etc.) and at the same time avoiding a 'break' from the
> 'for'.
I would advocate using the break myself. Another alternative is this:
for X in itertools.takewhile(lambda X: conditionZ, ListY):
...
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