Iterating over a stream with only readline() method [newbie question]

[Syam Pannala]

[Newbie Alert!!]
hi,

    i have a stream which provides only a readline() method (it can come from
a variety of sources including network and i dont want to buffer it so
that i can implement readlines()).

What is the python idiom for iterating over this stream until it throws
EOFError ?

thanks,
syam

To elobarate, if it had readlines(), i would have said

for i in stream.readlines():
   ..use i ..

i want the ..use i.. code not to change very much. Also, i think

while 1:
    try:
	i = stream.readline()
    expcept EOFError:
        break
    ... use i ..

looks very inelegant, even though that is what i have used as the current
implementation.

thanks again.