open() and EOFError

[Gregory Ewing]

Terry Reedy wrote:
> Avoid EOFError. Much better, I think, is the somewhat customary
> 
> s = input("Enter something, or hit <return> to exit")
> if not s: sys.exit()
> else: <process s>

I beg to differ -- on Unix, Ctrl-D *is* the customary
way to exit from something that's reading from stdin.

In any case, you need to be able to handle EOF gracefully
if the user uses it.

-- 
Greg