Python Success Stories or Nightmares

[Paul Rubin]

Andrew Bennetts <andrew-pythonlist at puzzling.org> writes:
> If you do this in Python alot, and really really want a one-liner,
> you could do:
> 
>     def getc(f):
>         while 1:
>             c = f.read(1)
>             if not c:
>                 return
>             yield c
> 
> Which you could then use as:
> 
>     for c in getc(f):
>         ...
> 
> That gives you the one-liner without all the punctuation.  Good enough?

Yucch.  I can't imagine how that could be considered easier to understand
than the assignment-inside-expression idiom.