testing true condition

Michael Hudson mwh21 at cam.ac.uk
Wed Apr 19 06:05:33 EDT 2000


Gregoire Welraeds <helpdesk at perceval.be> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I know that I can't do something like the following:
> 
> >>> while (line= f.readline()):
> 	...
> 
> as i could in C.  Is there any replacement tricks ?
> I know that I could use something with f.read() but i don't want to have
> the file completly loaded in memory

Tried the standard library module fileinput?

Cheers,
M.

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