Checking for EOF in stream

[GiBo]

Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2007-02-19, GiBo <gibo at gentlemail.com> wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Classic situation - I have to process an input stream of unknown length
>> until a I reach its end (EOF, End Of File). How do I check for EOF? The
>> input stream can be anything from opened file through sys.stdin to a
>> network socket. And it's binary and potentially huge (gigabytes), thus
>> "for line in stream.readlines()" isn't really a way to go.
>>
>> For now I have roughly:
>>
>> stream = sys.stdin
>> while True:
>> 	data = stream.read(1024)
>         if len(data) == 0:
>              break  #EOF
>> 	process_data(data)

Right, not a big difference though. Isn't there a cleaner / more
intuitive way? Like using some wrapper objects around the streams or
something?

GiBo