This is my first program in Python

[Remco Gerlich]

Steve Holden <sholden at holdenweb.com> wrote in comp.lang.python:
> The assignment has deliberately been designated a statement rather than an
> expression,
> The standard idiom for doing this with a while would be (untested):
> 
> while 1:
>     line = file.readline()
>     if line == '':
>         break
>     first, second = line.split(':', 1)
>     print first
> 
> Some people don't like this. It's not going to change :-)

But in 2.1, there will be xreadlines(), readlines() without slurping the
whole file into memory, which will at least make this idiom unnecessary in
the common case of reading a file line by line :-).

-- 
Remco Gerlich