file2lines

[Delaney, Timothy]

> I always write directly:
> 
>     for line in open('myfile').readlines():
>         some_interesting_function(line)
> 
> You can bury this within a `try...except' clause, of course, 
> but I think
> better to not blindly hide all errors, in general.  If you 

Rather than hiding all errors blindly ...

	file = None

	try:
		file = open('myfile')

		for line in file.readlines():
			some_interesting_function(line)

	finally:
		if file:
			file.close()

It's definitely more verbose, but it will work in any Python implementation.

Tim Delaney