Python 3.8给出了答案。

它叫做赋值表达式。从文档中可以看到:

# Loop over fixed length blocks
while (block := f.read(256)) != '':
    process(block)

如果您正在循环而资源不可用或抛出异常的类似情况下，您可以使用类似于

import time

while True:
    try:
       f = open('some/path', 'r')
    except IOError:
       print('File could not be read. Retrying in 5 seconds')   
       time.sleep(5)
    else:
       break

你想知道:

为了捕捉“停止迭代”异常并正确地打破while循环，我能做些什么?

你可以这样做，如下所示，这也利用了Python 3.8中引入的赋值表达式特性(又名“海象运算符”):

list_of_ints = [1, 2, 3]
iterator = iter(list_of_ints)

try:
    while (element := next(iterator)):
        print(element)
except StopIteration:
    print("done")

另一种可能(从Python 2.6到3.x都适用)是为内置的next()函数提供一个默认参数，以避免StopIteration异常:

SENTINEL = object()  # Unique object.
list_of_ints = [1, 2, 3]
iterator = iter(list_of_ints)

while True:
    element = next(iterator, SENTINEL)
    if element is SENTINEL:
        break
    print(element)

print("done")

对我来说，典型的while循环是这样的:

xBool = True
# A counter to force a condition (eg. yCount = some integer value)

while xBool:
    # set up the condition (eg. if yCount > 0):
        (Do something)
        yCount = yCount - 1
    else:
        # (condition is not met, set xBool False)
        xBool = False

我也可以在while循环中包含一个for..循环，如果情况允许的话，for循环通过另一组条件。

你为什么不做呢

for s in l :
    print s
print "done"

?

这里有一个不同模式的更疯狂的解决方案——使用协程。代码仍然非常相似，但有一个重要的区别;根本就没有退出条件!当您停止向协程提供数据时，协程(实际上是协程链)就会停止。

def coroutine(func):
    """Coroutine decorator

    Coroutines must be started, advanced to their first "yield" point,
    and this decorator does this automatically.
    """
    def startcr(*ar, **kw):
        cr = func(*ar, **kw)
        cr.next()
        return cr
    return startcr

@coroutine
def collector(storage):
    """Act as "sink" and collect all sent in @storage"""
    while True:
        storage.append((yield))

@coroutine      
def state_machine(sink):
    """ .send() new parts to be tokenized by the state machine,
    tokens are passed on to @sink
    """ 
    s = ""
    state = STATE_CODE
    while True: 
        if state is STATE_CODE :
            if "//" in s :
                sink.send((TOKEN_COMMENT, s.split( "//" )[1] ))
                state = STATE_COMMENT
            else :
                sink.send(( TOKEN_CODE, s ))
        if state is STATE_COMMENT :
            if "//" in s :
                sink.send(( TOKEN_COMMENT, s.split( "//" )[1] ))
            else
                state = STATE_CODE
                # re-evaluate same line
                continue
        s = (yield)

tokens = []
sm = state_machine(collector(tokens))
for piece in i:
    sm.send(piece)

上面的代码将所有令牌收集为令牌中的元组，我假设原始代码中的.append()和.add()之间没有区别。