Hi Ben,Yes, that's the point: Python doesn't know when to stop. *grin*
The way we've rewritten the loop:while True:...is an "infinite" loop that doesn't stop unless something in the loop'sbody does something extraordinary, like "breaking" out of the loop.
Python is much dumber than we
> Here's one way we can avoid the problem:
>
> while True:
> word = f.readline()
> defn = f.readline()
> if not word or not defn:
>break
> ...
>
> Does this make sense?
>
> It does mostly...I don't see why you need the:
>
> if not word or not defn:
Hello Danny
Thanks for replying to my post.
> I tried :>> for line in f:Thanks for your reply to my post.
> gloss[line] = f.readline()>
This should have worked, but there's one problem. Whenever we're doingsomething like:for line in f:...there can be some interference bet
