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Thanks. I was trying to point out that the idiom becomes while(line=readline()) which I'd rather avoid since = and == often get confused in a conditional. It

by mwerty 19y ago

Thanks. I was trying to point out that the idiom becomes while(line=readline()) which I'd rather avoid since = and == often get confused in a conditional. It would normally be silly to get into this level of detail but I use this so often.

akkartik 19y ago
Oh, good point. I am tolerant of globals :). Also of assignment instead of equality in conditionals (with an extra layer of parens to flag their unconventional nature). I've also used class methods where the implicit variable is in this.