readline in while loop

Andrew Koenig ark at research.att.com
Fri May 23 09:57:26 EDT 2003


>> f = file("test.txt", 'r')
>> for line in f:
>>   print line
>> f.close()

Ed> Looks neat. I try to avoid Perl vs. Python flame fest, but are
Ed> some constructs in Python context-sensitive (like in Perl), or is
Ed> this some handy use of iterators in class file?

It relies on the fact that a file is an iterator.

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Andrew Koenig, ark at research.att.com, http://www.research.att.com/info/ark




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