Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> writes: > Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu>: > >> On 4/17/2017 3:11 AM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: >>> Here's statistics from a medium-sized project of mine: >>> >>> while True: 34 >>> while <condition>: 39 >>> for ... in ...: 158 >> >> As I posted previously, the ratio of for-loops in the stdlib is about 7 >> to 1. > > What I notice in my numbers is that about one half of my while loops are > "while True", and about a third of my loops are while loops.
I fond the proportion on while True: loops surprising. Is there something about Python that encourages that kind of loop? -- Ben. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
