[ale] Pyhon syntax

[Christopher Fowler]

The Python fact seems to explain these differences.

>>> while True:
...   row = c.fetchone();
...   if not row: break;
...   print row


This one works but goes against the idea that if you enter a loop there
must only be one way out of that loop. 


On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 14:44, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> I'm playing around with Python and having some issues with the syntax.
> Guido van Rossum must hate the syntax of C, Java, Perl, etc.  I'm so
> used to braces that I'm getting a headache trying to understand the
> syntax.
> 
> I'm playing with MySQL DB and am executing some queries.
> 
> >>> import MySQLdb
> >>> db=MySQLdb.connect(host="127.0.0.1", user="cms", passwd="cms",
> db="AC_OUTPOST");
> >>> c = db.cursor();
> >>> c.execute("SELECT * FROM ens;");
> 5L
> >>>               
> 
> What I am wanting to do is a while loop to fetch each row.  I assume I
> use the fetchone method of the DB API.
> >>> while row=c.fetchone():
>   File "<stdin>", line 1
>     while row=c.fetchone():
>              ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> >>> 
> 
> Everytime I see a while loop in examples I see a "while 1:"  Then to 
> get out of the loop I see a break.  What is the proper syntax?
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris
> 
> 
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