eof?

[Peter Hansen]

Chris Barker wrote:
> [...]
> or, if processing the file as a list of lines doesn't work, the standard
> idiom is:
> 
> fh = open("file", "r")
> while 1:
>     line = fh.readline()
>     if not line: break
>     # do stuff with line
> 
> I'm not really very fond of "while 1" constructs, but since the break is
> right there next to it, it's not too bad, and I think a little better
> than what I used to do:
> 
> fh = open("file", "r")
> line = fh.readline()
> while 1:
>     # do stuff with line
>     # there could be a LOT of code here
> 
>     line = fh.readline()

Definitely better than what you used to do, since your code
wouldn't exit.  Or was that the point? :)

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