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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
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"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> wrote in message
news:-NSdneXjh7wndyLdRVn-vw@megapath.net...
> My point was that as long as you keep the exception handler and raising
out
> of the loop (which is certainly true for EOF), it can be quite efficient.
In
> the normal case (where you read many characters before reaching the end of
> the file), it's almost always better to handle the exception. That's
because
> one exception raise/handling pair is a lot cheaper than 10,000 function
> calls, especially one as expensive as EOF.

I think we're in 'violent agreement' :-)