rbt wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> finished = False >> while not finished: > > Why don't you just write 'while True'??? 'while not false' is like > saying 'I am not unemployed by Microsoft' instead of saying 'I am > employed by Microsoft'. It's confusing, complex and unnecessary. Lawyers > call it circumlocution (talking around the truth). > >> before = time.time() >> do(x) # sets finished if all was computed >> after = time.time() >> delta = after-before >> time.sleep(delta*10/3.)
The answer to your question "why not write 'while True'?" is to be found in the helpful comment he put on the line with "do(x)".... Note that "finished" is a flag, so "sets finished" sort of explains the whole thing. -Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
