[Python-ideas] Deprecate str.find

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 20:26:42 +0200
Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
> 
> Sorry, I don't see the immense complication in
> 
>         try:
>             line = readline()
>         except StopIteration:
>             line = ''
> 
> Of course, if the tokenize API was designed from scratch nowadays,
> it would probably only accept iterables, and you'd have to make one
> yourself from a file object using
> 
>     iter(fd.readline, '')

Or, since file objects are iterable out of the box, you could simply
pass the file object.

Regards

Antoine.