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An endless loop

bartc bc at freeuk.com
Sun Oct 15 09:59:54 EDT 2017 
On 15/10/2017 12:20, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 9:15 PM, bartc <bc at freeuk.com> wrote:

>> I assume you're talking about the while-loop (because on my machine, it
>> hangs just using 'from turtle...' or 'import turtle').

(Machine was screwed up I think, as I had to restart it shortly after 
for other reasons. When the turtle graphics worked.)

>> That looks to be a repeat-N-times loop. There isn't a dedicated statement
>> for that, the closest Python feature would be 'for i in range(n)' with i a
>> dummy loop variable.
> 
> You can use that or "for _ in range(n)" as a pretty effective form of
> that loop. I've never had a problem with it. Python doesn't need
> another type of loop.

I could understand that sentiment if there were already dozens. But I 
believe there's only, what, two loop types? To implement a number of 
basic looping requirements which, if not that numerous, are somewhat 
more than two.

Not exactly taxing the grey matter which already has those extra loop 
types in mind, and has to find a way to express them in terms of only two.

-- 
bartc
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