efficient text file search.

[Luuk]

"John Machin" <sjmachin at lexicon.net> schreef in bericht 
news:1157983701.863356.259790 at d34g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...
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> Luuk wrote:
> [snip]
>> some googling turned op the following.
>> Second paragraph of chapter 14 of http://www.amk.ca/python/2.1/
> [snip]
>> For a fuller discussion of the line I/O changes, see the python-dev 
>> summary
>> for January 1-15, 2001 at http://www.amk.ca/python/dev/2001-01-1.html.
>
> That is *HISTORY*. That is Python 2.1. That is the year 2001.
> xreadlines is as dead as a dodo.
>

Thats's why i started my reply with:
"some googling turned op the following."
i did not state that further googling was unneeded ;-)