Re: open() and EOFError

[Gregory Ewing]

Terry Reedy wrote:

Avoid EOFError. Much better, I think, is the somewhat customary

s = input("Enter something, or hit <return> to exit")
if not s: sys.exit()
else: <process s>

I beg to differ -- on Unix, Ctrl-D *is* the customary
way to exit from something that's reading from stdin.

In any case, you need to be able to handle EOF gracefully
if the user uses it.

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