Simulating C-style for loops in python

Question

(even the title of this is going to cause flames, I realize)

Python made the deliberate design choice to have the for loop use explicit iterables, with

Answer 1

What about:

date = start

while date < end:

    if not another_calendar.is_holiday(date):
        # ... do stuff...

    date = calendar.next_quarter_end(date)

But if you use that particular construct often, you're better off defining the generator once and re-using it as you did in your question.

(The fact is, since they're different languages, you can't possibly have every construct in C map to a more compact construct in Python. It's like claiming to have a compression algorithm that works equally well on all random inputs.)