seeking deeper (language theory) reason behind Python design choice

Fri May 11 02:54:56 EDT 2018

On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 11:45 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> To be honest, I'm having trouble thinking of a good use-case for "while
> True", now that we have infinite iterators. Most cases of
>> while True:
> x = get_item()
> if not x: break
> process(x)
>> are better written as:
>> for x in iterator:
> process(x)

x = get_item()
while True:
 x = process(x)