kj wrote:
I'm coaching a group of biologists on basic Python scripting. One of my charges mentioned that he had come across the advice never to use loops beginning with "while True".
It's possible this is something he was told in relation to another language that has more options. For example, in C there's for(;;) as an alternative, although there's not much to choose between them. Also you can often use an assignment-as-condition trick to squeeze a loop-and- a-half into a while(), and you have do-while loops for testing at the end. Python is much more limited -- anything which isn't a for has to be a while of some shape, so it's harder to avoid while True without introducing extra complexities into the code. -- Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
