Why is "while" ticking me off???

[Steve Lamb]

On Thu, 05 Oct 2000 19:58:25 -0400, Thomas Gagne <tgagne at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>while line = fp.readline():
>    do something with 'line'

    Perlism?

>I'm obviously not approaching this in the Python idiomatic way.

while 1:
  line = fp.readline()
  if not line:
    break
  do something with 'line'


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