On 2007-02-19, GiBo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Classic situation - I have to process an input stream of unknown length
> until a I reach its end (EOF, End Of File). How do I check for EOF? The
> input stream can be anything from opened file through sys.stdin to a
> network socket. And it's binary and potentially huge (gigabytes), thus
> "for line in stream.readlines()" isn't really a way to go.
>
> For now I have roughly:
>
> stream = sys.stdin
> while True:
> data = stream.read(1024)
if len(data) == 0:
break #EOF
> process_data(data)
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