On May 17, 7:47 am, walterbyrd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Python's lack of an EOF character is giving me a hard time.
The difference is simply that an empty line contains a '\n' while EOF does not. If you strip() your line before testing you will have trouble. But the minimal cases you post (properly indented and with the missing ':' in place), should work (they just won't produce any output). Repairing the first , I'm using dots (aka stops, periods) for spaces here to stop the code getting munged : line = fobj.readline() while line : ....print line.strip() ....line = fobj.realine() This does work look at this output (and note the empty lines): line with stuff line with more stuff line after the empty line and before another last line In python it is more ideomatic to write this general kind of loop with a break statement, thus: while True : ....line = fobj.readline() ....if not line : break ....print line.strip() However since file has for a long time been an iterable the easiest and most readible way to write it is this: for line in fobj : ....print line.strip() Asun -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
