PEP 234 little bug?

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <3C82A23F.84C66941 at earthlink.net>,
Hans Nowak  <wurmy at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>Should it be? This may be a dumb question, but are there important
>reasons to do this, besides conformance with the PEP? I mean, the
>current situation does do the job; "for line in file" works. What
>would be the additional benefit of making a file its own
>iterator?

The following code would work correctly:

for line in file:
    if line == 'foo':
        break
for line in file:
    pass
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