Question

I want to do something like the following:

while myFunc() as myVar:
    print myVar

Basically, just call a function in the loop line that will return a value and continue the loop depending on that value, but I would also like to be able to use that value within the loop and I would rather not have to call the function a 2nd time.

What I would like to avoid:

while myFunc():
    myVar = myFunc()
    print myVar

Answer 1

You can accomplish this using the two-argument version of the iter() built-in function:

for myVar in iter(myFunc, sentinel):
    print myVar

This is equivalent to the following:

while True:
    myVar = myFunc()
    if myVar == sentinel:
        break
    print myVar

From the docs for iter():

If the second argument, sentinel, is given, then o must be a callable
object. The iterator created in this case will call o with no
arguments for each call to its next() method; if the value returned is
equal to sentinel, StopIteration will be raised, otherwise the value
will be returned.