Gabriel Rossetti wrote: > I wrote a program that reads data from a file and puts it in a string, > the problem is that it loops infinitely and that's not wanted, here is > the code : > > d = repr(f.read(DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE)) > while d != "": > file_str.write(d) > d = repr(f.read(DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE)) > And yes I checked, the "d" variable is en empty string at some point, so > the looping should stop.
d may be an empty string, but repr(d) isn't: >>> d = "" >>> print repr(d) '' >>> print d Remove the two repr() calls and you should be OK. Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
