streaming a file object through re.finditer

[Daniel Bickett]

The following example loads the file into memory only one line at a
time, so it should suit your purposes:

>>> data = file( "important.dat" , "w" )
>>> data.write("this\nis\nimportant\ndata")
>>> data.close()

now read it....

>>> import re
>>> data = file( "important.dat" , "r" )
>>> line = data.readline()
>>> while line:
	for x in re.finditer( "\w+" , line):
		print x.group()
	line = data.readline()

	
this
is
important
data
>>> 


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Daniel Bickett
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