Range Operation pre-PEP

[Magnus Lie Hetland]

"Just van Rossum" <just at letterror.com> wrote in message
> Magnus Lie Hetland wrote:
>
> > Is sys.stdin going to be a line iterator? Why?
>
> Convenience?
>
>   for line in file:
>       ...
>
> I think that's pretty awesome. And once you see it, it makes you
> wonder why it hasn't always worked like that...
>

I guess so. I remember making the suggestion of

  for line in file.lines:
      ...

and

  for char in file.chars:
      ...

I see that lines are used in the PEP (and the CVS version),
and I guess it's a very reasonable default.

  for line in sys.stdin:
      ...

seems like a very Pythonesque way of spelling the
abhorrent

  while (<>) {
     ...
  }

:)

> Just

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