How to do this in Python?

Josh Holland jrh at joshh.co.uk
Tue Mar 17 18:10:20 EDT 2009


On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 05:04:36PM -0500, Jim Garrison wrote:
> What's the canonical Python way of implementing this pseudocode?
>
>     String buf
>     File   f
>     while ((buf=f.read(10000)).length() > 0)
>     {
>         do something....
>     }

That looks more like C than pseudocode to me...
Someone's been spending far too much time on C-like languages, if that's
what your idea of simply readable code looks like. Thank heavens you
found Python before it was too late!

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