Luis Zarrabeitia wrote: > On Sunday 11 October 2009 11:56:55 pm Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: >> In this situation, the middle exit works best -- using >> non-optimal Python >> >> while True: >> lin = file_object.readline() >> if not lin: break >> do something with lin > > Actually, in python, this works even better: > > for lin in iter(file_object.readline, ""): > ... do something with lin
And one can do this oneself. Faced with while True: stuff_required_to_make_the_decision() if the_decision(): break other_stuff() Wrapping the `stuff_required_...` and `the_decision` up into a generator would simplify the statement, and if it were done well the code overall would probably be better. Mel. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list