Why is "while" ticking me off???

[Alan Gauld]

Thomas Gagne wrote:
> while line = fp.readline():
>     do something with 'line'
> 
> but that doesn't work because Python doesn't allow assignments 

correct, so at the expense of typing a line twice, do 
the assignment externally:

line = fp.readline()
while line:
   # do something wiyth line
   line = fp.readline()

Alan G.
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