FIFO problems

Pettersen, Bjorn S BjornPettersen at fairisaac.com
Thu Sep 11 15:32:36 EDT 2003


> From: Steve Holden [mailto:sholden at holdenweb.com] 
> 
> "Duncan Booth" <duncan at NOSPAMrcp.co.uk> wrote ...
> > "Steve Holden" <sholden at holdenweb.com> wrote in
> > news:tJZ7b.67$o71.53 at news2.central.cox.net:
> >
[...]
> > >
> > > while 1:
> > >     line = serverIn.readline()
> > >     if not line:
> > >         break
> > >     del line[:-1]
> > >     if line == "bla":
> > >         do something incredibly interesting
> > >     else:
> > >         print line
> >
> > Untested is right. Your 'del' statement is a little bit too 
> > destructive, or at least it would be if strings were mutable.
> >
> :-) Well, I can only remind myself that "the person who never 
> made a mistake never made anything".
> 
> > Here's my (equally untested) alternative:
> >
> > for line in serverIn:
> >     line = line[:-1]
> >     if line == "bla":
> >         do something incredibly interesting
> >     else:
> >         print line
> >
> 
> Unfortunately this doesn't include the end-of-file test [...]

.. the iterator doesn't?

-- bjorn





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