File Parsing Question

[Peter Otten]

Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

>  for line in inp:
> 
> will read one line at a time (I'm fairly sure the iterator doesn't
> attempt to buffer multiple lines behind the scenes)

You are wrong:

>>> open("tmp.txt", "w").writelines("%s\n" % (9*c) for c in "ABCDE")
>>> instream = open("tmp.txt")
>>> for line in instream:
...     print instream.tell(), line.strip()
... 
50 AAAAAAAAA
50 BBBBBBBBB
50 CCCCCCCCC
50 DDDDDDDDD
50 EEEEEEEEE
>>> 

Here's the workaround:

>>> instream = open("tmp.txt")
>>> for line in iter(instream.readline, ""):
...     print instream.tell(), line.strip()
... 
10 AAAAAAAAA
20 BBBBBBBBB
30 CCCCCCCCC
40 DDDDDDDDD
50 EEEEEEEEE
>>> 

Peter