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A loop either never halts or has a conditional. I guess a compiler could elide a “while True:” to a branch-less jump instruction. One hack would be to use recursion and let stack exhaustion stop you.
Other would be to use goto (though Python doesn't have it) & introduce something that will panic/throw exception, like creating variable with value 1/(max-i).
Recursion would work for that, you don't need goto.
The division by zero trick is pretty good too!