1126 I need to emulate a do-while loop in a Python program. Unfortunately, the following straightforward code does not work:

Jun 21, 2015 · A do-while (although it should be called until) is my greatest wish for Python.

There is no do...while loop because there is no nice way to define one that fits in the statement: indented block pattern used by every other Python compound statement.

Is there any significant difference between the two Python keywords continue and pass like in the examples for element in some_list: if not element: pass and for element in some_list: ...

Feb 13, 2016 · Almost 10 years after this question has been asked and after programming with Python for 3 years, this is the first time I've seen the "for-else", "while-else" construct. I hope its …

Mar 20, 2012 · This is probably a trivial question, but how do I parallelize the following loop in python? # setup output lists output1 = list() output2 = list() output3 = list() for j in range(0, 10): …

I would like to inquire if there is an elegant pythonic way of executing some function on the first loop iteration. The only possibility I can think of is: first = True for member in something.get...

@OlivierPons You need to understand Python's iterator protocol: I get an iterator for an object, and retrieve the first value with next(). Then I exploit that an iterator is iterable by itself, so I …

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60 You should also know that in Python, iterating over integer indices is bad style, and also slower than the alternative. If you just want to look at each of the items in a list or dict, loop directly …