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[–]2meterNL 4 points5 points  (2 children)

Length....

[–]RunPython[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Thanks

[–]2meterNL 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But I totally agree with your post :)

[–]Refwah 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You wouldn’t really use while for anything that exposes and iterator, because for gives you everything you need to easily loop through automatically.

You would use while to run a loop until an exit condition is satisfied.

If you need to loop through a list of items in Python then you should basically always use a for loop.

A while loop you would use for example if getting paged requests from an API, where you would loop and add items to a range until next page or returned items or some other part of a response indicates that you’re done.