Nested stream line iteration

[Jim Meier]

On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 06:11:57 -0600, Lars Lundgren wrote:

[snip]
>     for line in fileinput.input(filename): 
>         [m,t] = string.split( line )
>         build( m,t )
> 
[snip]
> When I run it I get the following error:
> 
>     raise RuntimeError, "input() already active"
> RuntimeError: input() already active
> 
> As I understand it, this means that it is not allowed to nest input() like
> I do. Is that correct?
> 
> Then is there a working solution to my problem?
> 

I don't know about fileinput, but the idiom i would use here is a simple:

for line in open(filename).readlines():
	...(stuff)..

-Jim