On 2017-04-17, Ben Bacarisse <[email protected]> wrote:
> Marko Rauhamaa <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> Terry Reedy <[email protected]>:
>>
>>> On 4/17/2017 3:11 AM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>>>> Here's statistics from a medium-sized project of mine:
>>>>
>>>> while True: 34
>>>> while <condition>: 39
>>>> for ... in ...: 158
>>>
>>> As I posted previously, the ratio of for-loops in the stdlib is about 7
>>> to 1.
>>
>> What I notice in my numbers is that about one half of my while loops are
>> "while True", and about a third of my loops are while loops.
>
> I fond the proportion on while True: loops surprising. Is there
> something about Python that encourages that kind of loop?
That's how you read data from a socket/pipe/file.
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