Request for Enhancement
Samuel A. Falvo II
kc5tja at garnet.armored.net
Wed Aug 30 22:13:31 EDT 2000
In article <39ADBE5A.189FEA7E at holdenweb.com>, Steve Holden wrote:
>The classic pythonic method of processing such files is:
>
>while 1: # loop forever
> line = F.readline # get the next line
> if line == "": break # null string indicates EOF
> ... process line ...
>
>It often seems unnatural to Python newcomers, but you get used to it!
This is extremely unnatural to me; checking for end of file explicitly is
much more readable. However, if it works, then it works. :)
Thanks for the tip.
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