[Python-Dev] while: (original) (raw)

Martin Blais martin.blais at gmail.com
Wed Jul 20 05:13:02 CEST 2005


Hi

Today I typed something funny in the interactive interpreter:

while: File "", line 1 while: ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax

it got me wondering, wouldn't it be nice if

while: ...

behaved as:

while True: ...

Since they appeared, I started using "while True:" instead of "while 1:" for this common idiom. I find it reveals the intention better, but I don't like the typing.

Opinions?

cheers,



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