Graceful detection of EOF

[Jeff Epler]

Write a file-like object that can "look ahead" and provide a flag to
check in your unpickling loop, and which implements enough of the file
protocol ("read" and "readline", apparently) to please pickle.  The
following worked for me.

class PeekyFile:
    def __init__(self, f):
        self.f = f
        self.peek = ""

    def eofnext(self):
        if self.peek: return False
        try:
            self.peek = self.f.read(1)
        except EOFError:
            return True
        return not self.peek

    def read(self, n=None):
        if n is not None:
            n = n - len(self.peek)
            result = self.peek + self.f.read(n)
        else:
            result = self.peek + self.f.read()
        self.peek = ""
        return result

    def readline(self):
        result = self.peek + self.f.readline()
        self.peek = ""
        return result

import StringIO, pickle
o = StringIO.StringIO()
for x in range(5):
    pickle.dump(x, o)
i = PeekyFile(StringIO.StringIO(o.getvalue()))
while 1:
    i.eofnext()
    if i.eofnext():
        break
    print pickle.load(i)
print "at the end"
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