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On PEP 312: simple implicit lambda

Alex Martelli aleaxit at yahoo.com
Sun Feb 16 12:23:23 EST 2003 
Dan Schmidt wrote:
   ...
> In Python, to code these 'loop and a half' constructs, you have to
> either duplicate some code, as Christos did, or put a conditional
> break halfway through the loop, as I did.

Or (generally best these days) define and use an iterator, e.g.:

def readblocks(fileobject, blocksize=4096):
    def readoneblock():
        return fileobject.read(blocksize)
    return iter(readoneblock, '')


for data in readblocks(file_object):
    process(data)



or, use a lambda as iter's first argument to keep the function
you're introducing anonymous, if you prefer that style:

for data in iter(lambda:file_object.read(4096), ''):
    process(data)


Alex
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