new linereading standard?

[Radovan Garabik]

Al-Amerrho H. Amerin <al_amerin at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Pete Shinners wrote:

>>
>> now i can code in a preferred style
>>
>> myfile = open('myfile.txt', 'r')
>> for line in filelines(myfile):
>>     print line
>> myfile.close()
>>
>> as opposed to
>>
>> myfile = open('myfile.txt', 'r')
>> while 1:
>>     line = myfile.readline()
>>     if not line: break
>>     print line
>> myfile.close()
>>
>>
>> _____Pete Shinners______
>>    pete at visionart.com

> A beginner myself, I would write it like this:

> inputlines = open('myfile.txt').readlines()
> for line in inputlines:
>     print line

> Instead of the 'while 1: ....break' thingy.

...with the disadvantage that this will read the whole 
file into memory, which can be a bit difficult to handle when it 
is several MB long...


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