More Pythonic Way to Run a Process X Times

Question

Which is more pythonic?

While loop:

count = 0
while count < 50:
    print \"Some thing\"
    count = count + 1

Answer 1

How about?

while BoolIter(N, default=True, falseIndex=N-1):
    print 'some thing'

or in a more ugly way:

for _ in BoolIter(N):
    print 'doing somthing'

or if you want to catch the last time through:

for lastIteration in BoolIter(N, default=False, trueIndex=N-1):
    if not lastIteration:
        print 'still going'
    else:
        print 'last time'

where:

class BoolIter(object):

    def __init__(self, n, default=False, falseIndex=None, trueIndex=None, falseIndexes=[], trueIndexes=[], emitObject=False):
        self.n = n
        self.i = None
        self._default = default
        self._falseIndexes=set(falseIndexes)
        self._trueIndexes=set(trueIndexes)
        if falseIndex is not None:
            self._falseIndexes.add(falseIndex)
        if trueIndex is not None:
            self._trueIndexes.add(trueIndex)
        self._emitObject = emitObject


    def __iter__(self):
        return self

    def next(self):
        if self.i is None:
            self.i = 0
        else:
            self.i += 1
        if self.i == self.n:
            raise StopIteration
        if self._emitObject:
            return self
        else:
            return self.__nonzero__()

    def __nonzero__(self):
        i = self.i
        if i in self._trueIndexes:
            return True
        if i in self._falseIndexes:
            return False
        return self._default

    def __bool__(self):
        return self.__nonzero__()