Pythonic way of reading a textfile line by line without throwing an exception

[Larry Bates]

Deivys Ramirez wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm a Python newbie but have experience programming PHP and C so i'm
> not really new to programming but new to Python.
> 
> What's the "pythonic" way of reading a text file, line by line,
> without throwing an exception when there's nothing to be read?
> 
> I've been trying to map my while(!eof(fp)) mindset to the file object
> Python gives me when I call open() but have had no good results.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Deivys Ramirez
> Lima-Peru

File objects are iterable so you you can just loop on them.

fp=open(filename, 'r')
for line in fp:
    # do something with line

fp.close()

-Larry Bates