reading a text file

[Tino Wildenhain]

superpollo wrote:
> hi clp
> 
> what's the difference between:
> 
> while True:
>     input_line = sys.stdin.readline()
>         if input_line:
>             sys.stdout.write(input_line.upper())
>         else:
>             break
> 
> and:
> 
> 
> while True:
>     try:
>         sys.stdout.write(sys.stdin.next().upper())
>     except StopIteration:
>         break
> 

More useless code, under the hood its working similar.
But why not use it in the way intended?

for input_line in sys.stdin:
     sys.stdout.write(input_line.upper())

?

Regards
Tino
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