How to do variable assignment inside a while(expression) loop in Python?

Question

I have the variable assignment in order to return the assigned value and compare that to an empty string, directly in the while loop.

Here is how I\'m doing it in PH

Answer 1

I'm only 7 years late, but there's another solution. It's not the best solution I can think of, but it highlights an interesting use of the StopIteration exception. You can do a similar loop for chunk reading files/sockets and handle Timeouts and whatnot nicely.

names=[]
try:
    while True:
        f = raw_input()
        if not f:
            raise StopIteration
        else:
            names.append(f)
except StopIteration:
    pass

print names