Possible File iteration bug

[Terry Reedy]

On 7/15/2011 10:42 AM, Billy Mays wrote:
> On 07/15/2011 10:28 AM, Thomas Rachel wrote:
>> Am 15.07.2011 14:52 schrieb Billy Mays:

>>> Really what would be useful is some sort of PauseIteration Exception
>>> which doesn't close the generator when raised, but indicates to the
>>> looping header that there is no more data for now.
>>
>> a None or other sentinel value would do this as well (as ChrisA already
>> said).

> A sentinel does provide a work around, but it also passes the problem
> onto the caller rather than the callee:

No more so than a new exception that the caller has to recognize.

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Terry Jan Reedy