End of file?

[Steve]

Rene Pijlman wrote:
> Steve:
> 
>>I'm having trouble finding out if output from a pipe has finished (i.e. 
>>I can't find tell if there's a EOF in output.readlines()). How do I do 
>>this? Because readlines() can return empty lines and I can't simply 
>>check if the line is empty.
> 
> 
> You don't get an EOF from readlines().
> 
> "readlines([sizehint]) 
> 
> Read until EOF using readline() and return a list containing the lines
> thus read."
> 
> http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/bltin-file-objects.html
> 

Thanks :)