an ugly file-reading pattern

[Robin Munn]

Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> wrote:
> Recent versions of Python (2.2 and later) allow this:
> 
>     file = file("somefile")
>     for line in file:
>         process(line)

Ewww! Don't *do* that! You just shadowed the "file" builtin. Use a
different name for your file object -- I prefer "input_file":

    input_file = file("somefile")
    for line in input_file:
        process(line)

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Robin Munn <rmunn at pobox.com>
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