A nice feature in the J programming language is the infinite power operator, which gives the ability to raise a function to the infinite power. The idea is to repeatedly apply a function to its previous result until some convergence is reached or until some system is stabilized. Such a feature allows to "hide" many while loops.

Here is a link to the page of the J for C programmers book explaining more about this way of coding: Loopless Code IV.

Implementing such a feature in Python is rather easy:

class __infinitepower__():
    def __init__(self):
        pass
    def __rpow__(self,f):
        def func(a):
            while True:
                b = f(a)
                if b == a:
                    return b
                a = b
        return func
infinitepower = __infinitepower__()
infinitepower.__rxor__ = infinitepower.__rpow__

This piece of code creates the infinitepower variable which can be used for raising any function to the infinite power. This object may be affected to a new variable with a shorter name for convenience purposes (rename it to oo, Inf, or any other name).

>>> oo=infinitepower
>>> from math import sqrt, cos
>>> (cos**oo)(.5)
0.7390851332151607
>>> (sqrt^oo)(.5)
0.9999999999999999

Of course, the operator for "power" is ** in Python, but it isn't much more coding to also allow the variable to be used with ^ (while it could be held as a very bad idea from a pythonic point of view).