Terry J. Reedy added the comment: In the current 3.3.2 docs, 'STOP' has been replaced by '', so there is a change, and no infinite loop. However, this is still does not strike me as an example of 'useful' as for line in iter(fp.readline, "STOP"): # is a bad version of for line in fp: It does illustrate the behavior though.
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