[Python-Dev] A suggestion

[Terry Reedy]

On 7/16/2010 10:38 PM, Brandon Hayden wrote:
> In the Python language, or any other language for that matter, I have
> never understood why they don't have a loop function. Here's what I
> mean, every time someone wants something to repeat itself, they have to
> write a while loop like this:
>
> x = 0
> while x < 10:
> function()
> x = x + 1
>
> When, instead of writing all of that, you could do something similar to
> this:
>
> function().10
>
> Where you can just type in the number 10 right next to it. It makes no
> since.

Ask on python-list/clp/gmane.comp.python.general for an explanation.


-- 
Terry Jan Reedy