Guido van Rossum wrote: > I like the exact proposal made here better than any of the > alternatives mentioned so far. > > - Against naming it readline(): the "real" readline doesn't strip the > \n and returns an empty string for EOF instead of raising EOFError; I > believe the latter is more helpful for true beginners' code.
given how much trouble true beginners have with exceptions, that's far from obvious. </F> _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
