Graceful handling of first line

[Egbert Bouwman]

On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 11:59:32AM +0200, Alex Martelli wrote:
> 
> option 3, a bit cutesy:
> 
> for first_line in thefile: break
> for line in thefile: ...
> 
> (again, in 2.2 you'll need some foo=iter(thefile)).
> 
This technique depends in the file being positioned at line 2,
after the break.

However, In the Nutshell book, page 191, you write:
> Interrupting such a loop prematurely (e.g. with break)
> leaves the file's current position with an arbitrary value.

So the information about the current position is useless.

Do I discover a contradiction ?
egbert
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