End of file?

[Steve]

Hi,

I'm having trouble finding out if output from a pipe has finished (i.e.
I can't find tell if there's a EOF in output.readlines()). How do I do
this? Because readlines() can return empty lines and I can't simply
check if the line is empty. Please somebody help me!

Thanks.

Steve

 

[Rene Pijlman]

Steve:

I'm having trouble finding out if output from a pipe has finished (i.e.
I can't find tell if there's a EOF in output.readlines()). How do I do
this? Because readlines() can return empty lines and I can't simply
check if the line is empty.

You don't get an EOF from readlines().

"readlines([sizehint])

Read until EOF using readline() and return a list containing the lines
thus read."

http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/bltin-file-objects.html

 

[Steve]

Steve:

I'm having trouble finding out if output from a pipe has finished (i.e.
I can't find tell if there's a EOF in output.readlines()). How do I do
this? Because readlines() can return empty lines and I can't simply
check if the line is empty.

You don't get an EOF from readlines().

"readlines([sizehint])

Read until EOF using readline() and return a list containing the lines
thus read."

http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/bltin-file-objects.html

Thanks