newbie question...

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <3869229B.C06B94E5 at earthlink.net>,
Alexander Sendzimir  <sendzimir at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>    all_the_lines_in_the_file = somefilehandle.readlines()

The one disadvantage of this is that you consume memory proportionate to
the total size of the file.  If that's an issue, you have to use a while
loop with readline; you can use the QIO module to speed that up to
something closer to Perl.
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