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[Dietmar Lang]

Hello,

> > > There are several ways.  Best overall, today (Python 2.1):
> > >
> > >     for line in fh.xreadlines():
> > >         process(line)
[..]
> > fh = open("file", "r")
> > while 1:
> >     line = fh.readline()
> >     if not line: break
> >     # do stuff with line
[..]
> as is, I don't see the difference.  (Excepting that the for loop is much
> more concise, readable and intuitively understandable.)

Which is probably one of the best reasons. It's the same thing as using
inc(i) instead of i=i+1 : It might not make any differences in terms of
code speed, but expresses more directly what you want to do. In this
case, it's 'increase i by one', not 'adding one to i and assigning it to
i again'.

Dietmar