open() and EOFError

[Tim Chase]

On 2014-07-09 01:24, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 1:20 AM, Tim Chase
> > Okay, EOF is the canonical way to tell a program reading stdin
> > that you're done.  It just happens that EOF ^D on *nix-likes and
> > ^Z on Win32. :-)
> >
> > -tkc
> 
> I can't think of any Windows-native programs that ask for EOF. Only
> those which came from POSIX platforms do it. That said, though,
> Windows doesn't tend to encourage interactive command-line programs
> at all, so you may as well just follow the Unix convention.

There was a time in life where I used "copy con output.txt" on a
disturbingly frequent basis.  Control+Z ended my file for me.

-tkc