feof status (was: Re: [Python-Dev] Rehabilitating fgets)

[Eric S. Raymond]

Tim Peters <tim.one@home.com>:
> I agree an .eof() method would be better than a data member.  Note that
> whenever Python internals hit stream EOF today, they call clearerr(), so
> simply adding an feof() wrapper wouldn't suffice.  Guido seemed to try to
> make sure that feof() would never be useful <0.8 wink>.

That's inconvenient, but only means the internal Python state flag
that feof() would inspect would have to be checked after each read.
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