Some Python 2.1 ideas
Greg Jorgensen
gregj at pobox.com
Mon Dec 25 05:02:37 EST 2000
"Bjorn Pettersen" <pbjorn at uswest.net> wrote:
> This would be a good idea, except it wouldn't fit with the standard Python
idiom
> for reading files:
>
> while 1:
> line = f.readline_chomp()
> if not line: break # would always break
Oops! That shows how far I thought my idea through! And me always talking
about idioms...
I always use rstrip because I never care about trailing whitespace. If I did
have a reason to preserve trailing spaces I would write my own code to strip
the trailing newlines.
--
Greg Jorgensen
Deschooling Society
Portland, Oregon, USA
gregj at pobox.com
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