stdio EOF ?

François Pinard pinard at iro.umontreal.ca
Fri Aug 9 17:06:19 EDT 2002


[Erik Max Francis]

> The standard idiom [...] is:

> 	while 1:
> 	   line = file.readline()
> 	   if not line:
> 	      break
> 	   ...

This is the _old_ standard idiom.  The new standard idiom is:

    for line in file:
        ...

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





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