Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: > So he can't even help himself by setting his > own EOF attribute to False initially, and > to True when he sees an empty string. > > Is there a reason for this Bondage style?
There's a fair amount of overhead associated with providing the ability to set arbitrary attributes on an object, which is almost never wanted for built-in types, so it's not provided by default. You can easily get it if you want it by defining a Python subclass of the type concerned. -- Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
