EOF for binary?

[Roy Smith]

In article <1105147072.909665.242360 at z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>,
 "flamesrock" <flamesrock at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> So if I understand correctly, there are NO eof characters in any binary
> file. If so, is there an easier way to check for the end of the file
> than:
> 
> os.path.getsize(infile) <= infile.tell()

How you detect EOF depends on how you're reading the file.  For example, 
read() indicates EOF by returning fewer characters than you asked for 
(possibly zero).

Checking the length of a file is perilous.  Files change size.  File 
sizes don't have much meaning on things like network sockets to begin 
with.