John Salerno wrote: > 1 random.shuffle(letters) > 2 trans_letters = ''.join(letters)[:len(original_set)] > 3 trans_table = string.maketrans(original_set, trans_letters) > > So what I'd like to do is have lines 1 and 2 run once, then I want to do > some comparison between original_set and trans_letters before running > line 3. If the comparison passes, line 3 runs; otherwise, lines 1 and 2 > run again. > > A do/while would be good for this, but perhaps I'm looking at it in the > wrong way? Or is there some kind of do/while type of idiom that I could use? > > Thanks.
I guess you want something like: while True: random.shuffle(letters) trans_letters = ''.join(letters)[:len(original_set)] if some_compatison(original_set,trans_letters): trans_table = string.maketrans(original_set, trans_letters) break HTH, George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list