Generator slower than iterator?

[Federico Moreira]

Great, 2min 34 secs with the open method =)

but why?

ip, sep, rest = line.partition(' ')
       match_counter[ip] += 1

instead of

match_counter[line.strip()[0]] += 1

strip really takes more time than partition?

I'm having the same results with both of them right now.
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