Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2007-02-19, GiBo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi! >> >> Classic situation - I have to process an input stream of unknown length >> until a I reach its end (EOF, End Of File). How do I check for EOF? The >> input stream can be anything from opened file through sys.stdin to a >> network socket. And it's binary and potentially huge (gigabytes), thus >> "for line in stream.readlines()" isn't really a way to go. >> >> For now I have roughly: >> >> stream = sys.stdin >> while True: >> data = stream.read(1024) > if len(data) == 0: > break #EOF >> process_data(data)
Right, not a big difference though. Isn't there a cleaner / more intuitive way? Like using some wrapper objects around the streams or something? GiBo -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list