Possible File iteration bug

[Thomas Rachel]

Am 16.07.2011 05:42 schrieb Steven D'Aprano:

You are right - it is a very big step for a very small functionality.

> Or you can look at the various recipes on the Internet for writing tail-like
> file viewers in Python, and solve the problem the boring old fashioned way.


It is not only about this "tail-like" thing. There are other legitimate 
use cases for this. I once found myself in the need to have a growing 
list of data to be put into a database. This growth could, on one hand, 
need several minutes to complete, but on the other hand the data should 
be put into the database ASAP, but not too slow. So it was best to put 
on every DB call all data which were present into the DB and iterate 
over this until end of data.

Then, I wished such a PauseIteration exception as well, but there was 
another, not-to-bad way to do it, so I did it this way (roughly, an 
iterable whose iterator was exhausted if currently no data were present 
and which had a separate method for signalling end of data.

Roughly:

while not source.done():
     put_to_db(source)

where put_to_db() iterates over source and issues the DB query with all 
data available to this point and then starting over.


Thomas