BIG problem if readline strips newlines

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <rFrV6.136199$mu1.27715065 at typhoon.we.rr.com>,
Pete Shinners <shredwheat at mediaone.net> wrote:
>
>i've seen frequent mention of an option for readline() to strip out
>newlines as each string is read. this sounds like a great idea, but i
>realized its gonna be very difficult to loop through a text file. the
>standard python idioms will no longer work...
>
>for line in file.readlines(chomp=1):
>    pass

Um.  Think again?  Why wouldn't this work?
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