stdio EOF ?

[François Pinard]

[Erik Max Francis]

> > The new standard idiom is:
> > 
> >     for line in file:
> >         ...

> Correct me if I'm wrong (and this is at least true in 2.2), this does
> not do what the original poster asked.

I did not read the thread.  I merely replied to the message saying that:

> > > The standard idiom [...] is:
> > 
> > >       while 1:
> > >          line = file.readline()
> > >          if not line:
> > >             break
> > >          ...

You also write:

> It is equivalent to "for line in file.xreadlines(): ..."  which has the
> same buffering problem that the original poster was trying to avoid.

As long as you keep to a single "for line in file.xreadlines():" or
"for line in file:", is there a problem associated with the buffering?
I'm merely curious, here...

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François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard