Why is "while" ticking me off???

Neil Schemenauer nas at arctrix.com
Thu Oct 5 14:25:39 EDT 2000


On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 01:01:10AM +0000, Tyler Eaves wrote:
> This works:
> 
> a=fp.readlines()
> for x in a[]:
>    do something

I doubt it.  Try:

    for line in fp.readlines():
        do something

or

    import fileinput
    for line in fileinput.input():
        do something

which, I believe, acts similar to Perl's <> filehandle.

  Neil




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