Hey you Python coders out there:
Being a Python newbie, I have this question while trying to write a script to process lines from a text file line-by-line:
#!/usr/bin/python
fd = open( "test.txt" )
content = fd.readline()
while (content != "" ):
content.replace( "\n", "" ) # process content
content = fd.readline()
2 questions:
1. Why does the assignment-and-test in one line not allowed in Python? For example, while ((content = fd.readline()) != ""):
2. I know Perl is different, but there's just no equivalent of while ($line = <A_FILE>) { } ? I'm not asking for Python has to offer Perl already has, but simply wondering a good way to read from a file line-by-line.
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