"Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-...@yahoo.com.ar> writes:
> We're talking about the iter() builtin behavior, and that uses ==
> internally.
Oh, I see. Drat.
> It could have used an identity test, and that would be better for this
> specific case. But then iter(somefile.read, '') wouldn't work.
Yeah, it should allow supplying a predicate instead of using == on
a value. How about (untested):
from itertools import *
...
for row in takewhile(lambda x: x is sentinel,
starmap(in_queue.get, repeat(()))):
...
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