From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: itz@very.loosely.org (Ian Zimmerman)
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2017 10:05:48 -0800
Subject: [TUHS] 80 columns ...
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On 2017-11-11 12:30, Random832 wrote:

> for val in iter(function, STOP):
>     do_something()

A neat trick, thanks.

> (If the function is readline, though, you can just iterate over the
> file object)

This doesn't work if the file object can be a tty (such as stdin), IIRC
due to stdio buffering effects.

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