PEP: statements in control structures

Rich Harkins rharkins at thinkronize.com
Thu Oct 18 17:50:18 EDT 2001


Skip Montanaro (skip at pobox.com):
>
>     Rich> Or perhaps along that same vein...
>     Rich> while line from file.readline():
>     Rich>       ...
>
> Python 2.2 with iterator support already supports
>
>     for line in file:
>         ...
>

True indeed.  I was (weakly) suggesting "from" as an alternative to the
assignement opperator but not wanting too much to end up mired in *that*
boondoggle. :)

Rich
(now diving for cover in a bomb shelter)   :)






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