Using an arbitrary maximum in range()

Question

Is there a way in Python to iterate over every integer until something happens? Right now I tend to do one of the following:

for i in range(999999999):
   ...
   if something:
       break

or

i = 0
status = True
while status:
    ...
    if something:
        status = False
    i += 1

Both of these methods work for what I'm doing, but I'm sure there's a better way to do it. Please point me in the right direction.

Answer 1

Try itertools.count.

>>> import itertools
>>> for x in itertools.count():
...     print x
...     if x > 10: break
...
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