Aug. 27, 2005
3:40 p.m.
Raymond Hettinger wrote:
[Martin]
For another example, file.read() returns an empty string at EOF.
When my turn comes for making 3.0 proposals, I'm going to recommend nixing the "empty string at EOF" API. That is a carry-over from C that made some sense before there were iterators. Now, we have the option of introducing much cleaner iterator versions of these methods that use compact, fast, and readable for-loops instead of multi-statement while-loop boilerplate.
I think for char in iter(lambda: f.read(1), ''): pass is not bad, too. Reinhold -- Mail address is perfectly valid!