syntax - 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 PHP:

while((name = raw_input("Name: ")) != ''):
    names.append(name)

What I'm trying to do is identical to this in functionality:

names = []
while(True):
    name = raw_input("Name: ")
    if (name == ''):
        break
    names.append(name)

Is there any way to do this in Python?

Answer 1

from functools import partial

for name in iter(partial(raw_input, 'Name:'), ''):
    do_something_with(name)

or if you want a list:

>>> names = list(iter(partial(raw_input, 'Name: '), ''))
Name: nosklo
Name: Andreas
Name: Aaron
Name: Phil
Name: 
>>> names
['nosklo', 'Andreas', 'Aaron', 'Phil']