How to streamingly read text file and display whenever updated text

Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Sun Oct 6 07:13:01 EDT 2013


On 06/10/2013 12:03, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> Also note that a bare except is extremely bad practice, e.g. you can't stop
>> rogue programs with a CTRL-C
>
> Or to be more accurate, a Ctrl-C will cause a jump to your except
> clause. Since, in this instance, that's going to emit and die, Ctrl-C
> will still stop the program. But yes, catching KeyboardInterrupt
> usually isn't your intention.
>
> ChrisA
>

Good point, but at least this time I typed "rogue" correctly, unlike on 
the tutor mailing list :)

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Violets are blue,
Most poems rhyme,
But this one doesn't.

Mark Lawrence




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