Alright, everyone seems to have gone off on a tangent here, so I'll try
to stick to your code...
"""
This is what I would ideally like:
f = open("blah.txt", "r")
while c = f.read(1):
# ... work on c
But I get a syntax error.
while c = f.read(1):
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
"""
That's because you are using an assignment operator instead of a
comparison operator. It should have been written like this:
while c == f.read(1):
that would be written correctly, though I don't think that is your
intention.
Try this novel implementation, since nobody has suggested it yet.
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import mmap
f = open("blah.txt", 'r+') #opens file for read/write
c = mmap.mmap(f.fileno(),0) #maps the file to be used as memory map...
while c.tell() < c.size():
print c.read_byte()
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That accomplishes the same thing.
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