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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 16:54:14 -0600
Subject: Re: while expression feature proposal
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On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Tim Chase
<python.list@tim.thechases.com> wrote:
> It may be idiomatic, but that doesn't stop it from being pretty
> ugly.  I must say I really like the parity of Dan's
>
>   while EXPR as VAR:
>      BLOCK
>
> proposal with the "with" statement.  It also doesn't fall prey to
> the "mistaken-assignment vs. intentional-assignment" found in most
> C-like languages.  I could see a pretty reasonable PEP coming from this.

Often though the while test is not a simple boolean test of VAR.  For example:

j = int(random() * n)
while j in selected:
    j = int(random() * n)

It also doesn't flow quite as naturally.  "with x as y" is
grammatically correct English.  "while x as y" is not, and I wonder
how easily it might be confused for "while x is y", which is valid
Python and means something completely different.