"Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> Language comparisons are sometimes good. They are best when >>> they are free of FUD. >> >> So why Python's IO cannot yield f.eof() as easily as Ruby's can? :) > > Because that requires buffering, something that affects speed.
I don't get it, Python's files are implemented on top of stdio FILE objects, which do buffering and provide EOF checking (of the sort where you can check if a previous read hit the EOF, but still). Why not export that functionality? > Considering your own repeated remarks about "I'd only use ruby if it > wasn't slower than Python", I'd think you could value that. I see no reason why exposing the EOF check would slow things down. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
