You're s right. missed that one, sorry...
Kent Johnson wrote:
> Hugo González Monteverde wrote:
>
>>for a file-like object with a read method:
>>
>>for line in file:
>> if not line:
>> break
>
>
> The test
> if not line:
> break
> is not needed with this form of looping; t
Hugo González Monteverde wrote:
> for a file-like object with a read method:
>
> for line in file:
> if not line:
> break
The test
if not line:
break
is not needed with this form of looping; the loop will end automatically when
it gets to the end of the file.
>
> line will
for a file-like object with a read method:
for line in file:
if not line:
break
line will be "" for EOF, "\n" for an empty line.
This will not read the whole file to RAM at once. I'm not familiar with
the gzip module, but if the read() solution works for small files, the
one I pr
Adam Bark wrote:
> If you use something like this:
>
> for line in file.readlines():
This will read the whole file into a list of lines; the OP doesn't want to read
the whole file at once.
> then line is a string to the next newline and it automatically detects
> the EOF and the same with file
If you use something like this:
for line in file.readlines():
then line is a string to the next newline and it automatically detects
the EOF and the same with file.readline() but that will give you one
character at a time.On 7/19/05, frank h. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
hello allI am trying to wri
