Newbie asks: How to translate this line of C to Py

[Erik Max Francis]

"Steve S.L. Wong" wrote:

> while (command = strtok(line_ptr,";"),line_ptr=0,command) {
> }

Whoever wrote that should be taken out and fed worms.  This is
deliberately and unnecessarily obfuscated.

All this does is tokenize the contents of line_ptr.  In Python the
equivalent would simply be:

	for command in line_ptr.split(';'):
	    ...

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