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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: open() and EOFError
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 18:54:13 -0400
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On 07 Jul 2014 08:00:14 GMT, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info>
declaimed the following:

>How do people feel about code like this?
>
>try:
>    name = input("Enter file name, or Ctrl-D to exit")

	Personally -- I usually use "... <return> to exit" with the implication
that a null entry means exit...

	if name == "" then sys.exit()

	Of course, if I'm prompting in the first place, I'm not expecting to be
reading a (redirected?) file for data, or I'd expect the file to follow the
expected (by me)  blank line convention. Prompting for an EOF is so system
dependent... (It's been 35 years, but I think Xerox CP/V used <ctrl-f> for
EOF; it also allowed the <BEL> character in file names, making for
intriguing entry of filenames on the command line [the BASIC interpreter
DIR command would detect the non-visible character and display the entire
file name in hex... EBCDIC hex])


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