On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote:
> Changing event loops in the middle of event processing is not a common > (or even useful) pattern. You start the event loop and then leave it > alone. > Yes. It was not-so-great morning idea. > Yes, 'write' part is good, I should mention it. I meant to say that I > won't > > need to explain that there were days when we had to handle a special > marker > > at the end of file. > > But even today you have to mark the end somehow, to distinguish it > from "not done yet, more could be coming". The equivalent is typing ^D > into a UNIX terminal (or ^Z on Windows). My interns told me that they remember EOF as special object only from high school when they had to study Pascal. I guess, in 5 years students won't understand how one can write an EOF. (and schools will finally replace Pascal with Python) -- Kind regards, Yuriy.
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