Mixing files and loops

Question

I\'m writing a script that logs errors from another program and restarts the program where it left off when it encounters an error. For whatever reasons, the developers of t

Answer 1

You get the ValueError because your code probably has for line in original: in addition to original.readline(). An easy solution which fixes the problem without making your program slower or consume more memory is changing

for line in original:
    ...

to

while True:
    line = original.readline()
    if not line: break
    ...