none wrote: > If I try to run the above code, I get a SyntaxError indicating that I > can't do an assignment in the while loop. I found a way around this > (see the commented out while loop), but it seems hackish. Assignment > within a while loop seems like a pretty standard thing, so I'm just > curious what I'm missing. >
Not much, you cannot assign to a variable in the controlling expression of a while loop. However, for loops do assign values to variables, so if the form with the break offends you, try restructuring your code as a for loop. For example: for results in iter(sth.fetchone, None): print results or in many cases you can just fetch everything in one go: for results in sth.fetchall(): print results -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
