Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettin...@gmail.com> added the comment:
I concur that the readline() example is problematic. While it succeeds in
showing how iter() works, the example itself is not the best way to solve that
particular problem.
Here are two possible substitute examples.
1) Simple example that focuses primarily on the behavior of iter() and required
little extra knowledge:
>>> from random import randint
>>> def roll_dice():
return randint(1, 6) + randint(1, 6)
>>> # roll until a seven is seen
>>> list(iter(roll_dice, 7))
>>> list(iter(roll_dice, 7))
[10, 6, 5, 6, 8]
2) Practical application reading binary files in fixed-width blocks for
processing with the structure module. This also teaches how to partial() to
produce an arity-zero callable suitable for use with iter().
>>> Read fixed-width blocks from a database binary file
>>> from functools import partial
>>> with open('mydata.db', 'rb') as f:
for block in iter(partial(f.read, 64)):
print(parse_struct(block))
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nosy: +rhettinger
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