what is wrong with this line? while (line = workfile.readline()) != "":

[Samuel A. Falvo II]

On Tue, 22 May 2001 14:07:44 -0600, erudite wrote:
>Thank you all for your responses. Question though. Is there some sort of
>advantage to not allowing statements where a expressions is expected?

I think the idea was to make the language as easy to read for beginning
programmers as possible, without sacrificing the power of the language.

>> An alternative way to write the loop:
>>
>> line = workfile.readline()
>> while line != "" :
>>     <rest of loop here>
>>     line = workfile.readline()
>>
>> IMO this is a poorer way of organizing the loop due to the redunancy
>> of the line containing the call to 'readline'.

While the second line may be redundant, the flow and intent of the loop is
more explicit and easier to read.

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Samuel A. Falvo II
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