On Nov 23, 10:00 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ruby doesn't have the good ol' eof. Good old eof tests a single flag > and requires a pre read(). Ruby's eof blocks and does buffering (and > this is a very strong technical statement). Actually, to be a bit more technical, IO#eof acts like standard C eof for File objects, it only blocks / requires a previous read() on character devices and pipes and such. For files, it's the same as checking the absolute position of the file stream: f.tell == File.size(f.path). Of course, the same can be done in python quite easily (and probably better implemented): f.tell() == os.stat(f.name).st_size I don't honestly see what the big deal is about including or excluding an eof function / method in python. If you need it, it is easy to implement, and like yourself and others have shown, you usually don't need it. Regards, Jordan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
