Re: Help with Iteration

[Eric Wertman]

>Aaron Brady <cast...pigmail .comwrote:

>>

>>while 1:
>> calculate_stuff ( )
>> if stuff < 0.00005:
>> break

>>
>The thought police will come and get you.

Based on Aaron's previous posting history, I suspect this was a joke.

[Aaron Brady]

Re: Help with Iteration

On Oct 19, 12:27 pm, "Eric Wertman" <ewert...@gmail .comwrote:

Aaron Brady <cast...pigmail .comwrote:

>

>while 1:
>   calculate_stuff ( )
>   if stuff < 0.00005:
>       break

>

The thought police will come and get you.

>
Based on Aaron's previous posting history,  I suspect this was a joke.

Not necessarily, (technically... ) if you mean that those 4 lines would
never be consistent with my other stuff, see below. I didn't intend
to mock the OP at all. But you're right, it definitely looked
oversimplified.

'calculate_stuf f' could have been defined local to the function:

def f():
stuff= [1]
def calculate_stuff ( ):
stuff.append( stuff[-1]* 2 )
calculate_stuff ( )

Then the test 'if some_comparison ( stuff )' still makes sense and
doesn't require a global variable.

For the 'stuff < 0.00005' test in particular to make sense, 'stuff'
could be an instance of an object with '__lt__' defined.

Since Python doesn't define an 'until' statement in addition to
'while', the question could have been about control flow.