readline in while loop

[Andrew Walkingshaw]

In article <87znldn8h3.fsf at titan.staselog.com>, Edvard Majakari wrote:
> Looks neat. I try to avoid Perl vs. Python flame fest, but are some
> constructs in Python context-sensitive (like in Perl), or is this some
> handy use of iterators in class file?
> 

Only answering the second half of your question, the latter - I think
this is a python-2.2ism, but file objects have grown an iterator which
behaves as above. It's an entirely general mechanism, not a bit of
special-casing.

- Andrew 

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