Newbie question about file input

[Grant Edwards]

On 2004-08-16, Elcio Ferreira <elciof at gmail.com> wrote:
>> while 1:
>>   line = zf.readline()
>>   if not line:
>>     break
>
> Newbie's question:
>
> Isn't it a strange way to do a loop? Create a loop with a foo
> condition and use an if to break it?
>
>=====
> line=zf.readline()
> while line:
>     . . .
>     line=zf.readline()
>=====
>
> Isn't this code much more easy to understand?

I prefer this:

for line in xf:
    ....


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