"in" for dicts (was: Python 2.1 function attributes)

Remco Gerlich scarblac at pino.selwerd.nl
Mon Jan 29 05:41:29 EST 2001


Tim Peters <tim.one at home.com> wrote in comp.lang.python:
> Figures -- that's the one Guido likes least.  He dislikes xrange too.  He
> was forced into xreadlines by timing considerations (we couldn't match its
> performance cleanly, not with finite effort).  The only reason to like
> xreadlines is speed (which is reason enough!)

Huh? I like it because it's a very simple way to iterate over a file line by
line without having the whole file in memory. Simpler than the several
existing ways that get discussed over and over and over. 
And it's faster, too!!

-- 
Remco Gerlich



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