While loops in Python can be extremely similar to the for loop if you really wanted them to be. Essentially, they both loop through for a given number of times, but a while loop can be more vague (I'll discuss this a little bit later). Generally, in a while loop you will have a conditional followed by some statements and then increment the variable in the condition. Let's take a peek at a while loop really quick:

Example

a = 1 while a <10: print (a) a+=1

Result: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Fairly straightforward here, we have our conditional of a < 10 and a was previously declared and set equal to 1. So, our first item printed out was 1, which makes sense. Next, we increment a and ran the loop again. Of course, once a becomes equal to 10, we will no longer run through the loop.

The awesome part of a while loop is the fact that you can set it to a condition that is always satisfied like 1==1, which means the code will run forever! Why is that so cool? It's awesome because you create listeners or even games. Be warned though, you are creating an infinite loop, which will make any normal programmer very nervous.

Where's the do-while loop

Simple answer, it isn't in Python. You need to consider this before you are writing your loops. Not that a do-while loop is commonly used anyway, but Python doesn't have any support for it currently.