[Python-ideas] A suggestion for a do...while loop

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Mon Jun 26 02:14:54 EDT 2017


On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 4:08 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
>> If we wanted to allow that to be expressed literally, we could
>> probably special case the "while not break" keyword sequence as a do
>> loop:
>>
>>      while not break:
>>          # Setup
>>          if condition: break
>>          # Loop continuation
>
>
> We would then also need 'while not return:'

And for completeness, "while not throw:".

ChrisA


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