[Python-Dev] cpython: Closes issue 17467. Add readline and readlines support to

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 00:50:27 -0700
Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> If you want to add support for additional functionality feel free to propose a patch.

This isn't about additional functionality, this is about
correctness. You don't want to write multiple, slightly different,
implementations of readline() and friends (which is what Python 2 did).

Regards

Antoine.