New (?) suggestion re: 'while x = f(): ...'

[Aahz]

In article <ad496f8.0205290524.4caf5c34 at posting.google.com>,
Ville Vainio <vvainio at tp.spt.fi> wrote:
>aahz at pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote in message news:<ad1hv0$95i$1 at panix1.panix.com>...
>>
>> This isn't abuse; this was precisely the intention of creating iterators
>> and generators.
>
>Speaking of which - why does the iterator of file objects return
>strings with trailing \n's in place? Considering that we don't have to
>detect EOF by ''...

Because a line *is* a string ending with \n.
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