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A gnarly little python loop

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I'm trying to pull down tweets with one of the many twitter APIs.  The 
particular one I'm using (python-twitter), has a call:

data = api.GetSearch(term="foo", page=page)

The way it works, you start with page=1.  It returns a list of tweets.  
If the list is empty, there are no more tweets.  If the list is not 
empty, you can try to get more tweets by asking for page=2, page=3, etc.  
I've got:

    page = 1
    while 1:
        r = api.GetSearch(term="foo", page=page)
        if not r:
            break
        for tweet in r:
            process(tweet)
        page += 1

It works, but it seems excessively fidgety.  Is there some cleaner way 
to refactor this?

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A gnarly little python loop Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-11-10 17:58 -0500
  Re: A gnarly little python loop Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-11-10 16:17 -0700
  Re: A gnarly little python loop Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-11-11 00:23 +0000
  Re: A gnarly little python loop Steve Howell <showell@domaintools.com> - 2012-11-10 19:03 -0800
    Re: A gnarly little python loop Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2012-11-11 08:56 +0100
  Re: A gnarly little python loop rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2012-11-11 23:09 -0800
    Re: A gnarly little python loop rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2012-11-12 07:21 -0800
      Re: A gnarly little python loop Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2012-11-12 16:49 +0100
      Re: A gnarly little python loop Steve Howell <showell30@yahoo.com> - 2012-11-12 08:09 -0800
        Re: A gnarly little python loop rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2012-11-12 20:14 -0800

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