On Python Infinite Loops

How do you write an endless loop without using True, False, number constants and comparison operators in Python ?

I've been working on the mutation test tool Cosmic Ray and discovered that it was missing a boolean replacement operator, that is an operator which will switch True to False and vice versa, so I wrote one. I've also added some tests to Cosmic Ray's test suite and then I hit the infinite loop problem. CR's test suite contains the following code inside a module called adam.py

while True:
    break

The test suite executes mutations on adam.py and then runs some tests which it expects to fail. During execution one of the mutations is replace break with continue which makes the above loop infinite. The test suite times out after a while and kills the mutation. Everything fails as expected and we're good.

Adding my boolean replacement operator broke this function. All of the other mutations work as expected but then the loop becomes

while False:
    break

When we test this particular mutation there is no infinite loop so Cosmic Ray's test suite doesn't time out like it should and an error is reported.

job ID 25:Outcome.SURVIVED:adam
command: cosmic-ray worker adam boolean_replacer 2 unittest -- tests
--- mutation diff ---
--- a/home/travis/build/MrSenko/cosmic-ray/test_project/adam.py
+++ b/home/travis/build/MrSenko/cosmic-ray/test_project/adam.py
@@ -32,6 +32,6 @@
     return x
 
 def trigger_infinite_loop():
-    while True:
+    while False:
         break

So the question becomes how to write the loop condition in such a way that nothing will mutate it but it will still remain true so that when break becomes continue this piece of code will become an infinite loop ? Using True or False constants obviously is a no go. Same goes for numeric constants, e.g. 1 or comparison operators like >, <, is, not, etc. - all of them will be mutated and will break the loop condition.

So I took a look at the docs for truth value testing and discovered my solution:

while object():
    break

I'm creating an object instance here which will not be mutated by any of the existing mutation operators.

Thanks for reading and happy testing!