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Re: while True or while 1

Date	2012-01-23 08:02 -0500
From	Dave Angel <d@davea.name>
Subject	Re: while True or while 1
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On 01/22/2012 10:55 PM, alex23 wrote:
> On Jan 23, 2:05 am, Dan Sommers<d...@tombstonezero.net>  wrote:
>> As per a now-ancient suggestion on this mailing list (I believe it was by
>> Tim Peters), I've also been known to use a non-empty, literal Python
>> string as a self-documenting, forever-True value in the typical loop-and-a-
>> half cnstruct:
>>
>>      while "the temperature is too big":
> I don't think I've ever encountered this before, but I like it :)
> Cheers!
I do something similar when there's a portion of code that should never 
be reached:

assert("reason why I cannot get here")



-- 

DaveA

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Re: while True or while 1 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-01-22 01:59 +1100
  Re: while True or while 1 Erik Max Francis <max@alcyone.com> - 2012-01-21 13:13 -0800
    Re: while True or while 1 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-01-22 09:13 +1100
      Re: while True or while 1 Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-01-22 05:25 +0000
        Re: while True or while 1 Dan Sommers <dan@tombstonezero.net> - 2012-01-22 16:05 +0000
          Re: while True or while 1 alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2012-01-22 19:55 -0800
            Re: while True or while 1 Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2012-01-23 08:02 -0500
              Re: while True or while 1 Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@xemacs.org> - 2012-01-23 14:28 +0100
                Re: while True or while 1 Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2012-01-23 13:33 -0500
        Re: while True or while 1 MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2012-01-22 16:13 +0000
    Re: while True or while 1 Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2012-01-23 15:51 +0000
    Re: while True or while 1 Giampaolo Rodolà <g.rodola@gmail.com> - 2012-01-23 17:41 +0100
      Re: while True or while 1 Erik Max Francis <max@alcyone.com> - 2012-01-23 11:12 -0800
        Re: while True or while 1 Giampaolo Rodolà <g.rodola@gmail.com> - 2012-01-23 21:20 +0100
    Re: while True or while 1 Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-01-23 10:39 -0700
    Re: while True or while 1 Evan Driscoll <edriscoll@wisc.edu> - 2012-01-23 12:05 -0600
    Re: while True or while 1 Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> - 2012-01-23 20:50 +0000
      Re: while True or while 1 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2012-01-23 14:42 -0800
      Re: while True or while 1 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2012-01-23 14:42 -0800
      Re: while True or while 1 Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-01-24 03:37 +0000

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