On May 4, 2005, at 01:57, Paul Moore wrote:
> tried to construct a plausible example, I couldn't find a case which
> made real-life sense. For example, with Nicolas' original example:
>
> for name in filenames:
> opening(name) as f:
> if condition: break
>
> I can't think of a reasonable condition which wouldn't involve reading
> the file - which either involves an inner loop (and we already can't
> break out of two loops, so the third one implied by the opening block
> makes things no worse), or needs the whole file reading (which can be
Looking for a file with a certain magicnumber in its 1st two bytes...?
for name in filenames:
opening(name) as f:
if f.read(2) == 0xFEB0: break
This does seem to make real-life sense to me...
Alex
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