eof

[MonkeeSage]

On Nov 23, 10:00 pm, "hda... at gmail.com" <hda... at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Ruby doesn't have the good ol' eof. Good old eof tests a single flag
> and requires a pre read(). Ruby's eof blocks and does buffering (and
> this is a very strong technical statement).

Actually, to be a bit more technical, IO#eof acts like standard C eof
for File objects, it only blocks / requires a previous read() on
character devices and pipes and such. For files, it's the same as
checking the absolute position of the file stream: f.tell ==
File.size(f.path).

Of course, the same can be done in python quite easily (and probably
better implemented):

f.tell() == os.stat(f.name).st_size

I don't honestly see what the big deal is about including or excluding
an eof function / method in python. If you need it, it is easy to
implement, and like yourself and others have shown, you usually don't
need it.

Regards,
Jordan