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[Alan Gauld]

On 20/07/14 21:37, Marc Tompkins wrote:

> Fourth (and here I differ from some of the others on this list,
> notably Alan G) - I don't like the "while True: / break" paradigm.

FWIW I don't like it either, but it has become a canonical
Python idiom.

In fact in this case I suggested he use a for loop to iterate over
the file and use a dictionary to store the results...

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