proposal: another file iterator

[Benji York]

Jean-Paul Calderone wrote:
 >  When I just want the dumb version, I tend to write this:
 >
 >     for chunk in iter(lambda: f.read(blocksize), ''): ...
 >
 > Which is only very slightly longer than your version.  I would like it
 > even more if iter() had been written with the impending doom of lambda
 > in mind, so that this would work:
 >
 >     for chunk in iter('', f.read, blocksize): ...
 >
 > But it's a bit late now.

How about this instead (will work in 2.5):

     for chunk in iter(partial(f.read, blocksize), ''): ...

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Benji York