conditional print statement ?

[Terry Reedy]

"Stef Mientki" <S.Mientki-nospam at mailbox.kun.nl> wrote in message 
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|     if Print_Info: print Datafile.readline()
|     else:                Datafile.readline()

Since both branches discard the data read, I presume Martin's fix is what 
you really want.

| Is there a more compressed way to write such a statement,
| especially I dislike the redundancy "Datafile.readline()".

But for future reference, if you really do need to call a method in 
multiple places (or even just multiple times in a loop) you can condense 
like so:

dread = Datafile.readline # followed by
...
dread() # as needed

Terry Jan Reedy