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Wojtek Walczak gminick at bzt.bzt
Fri Aug 22 15:53:58 EDT 2008


On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:18:37 +0530, Anjanesh Lekshminarayanan wrote:

> Im trying to download a file from a server. But how do I detect EOF ?

Whenever read() method returns empty string/list.


> while f1: # When to stop ?
     retval = f1.read()
     if not retval:
        break
     f2.write(retval)

should do the job.

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Wojtek Walczak,
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