[Tutor] How long can a line be for readline() or readlines() ??

[Andrei Kulakov]

On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 06:04:57PM -0500, Schmidt, Allen J. wrote:
> Is there a limit to the length of an individual line when using readlines()
> or readline() ?
> 
> I get errors when a line exceeds 2048 characters.

Hm, I just tried it, I don't get any errors. I tried a line of 3000
characters:

...
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa\n'
>>> len(a)
3001

I used readline() to read it in, with Python 2.1.1.

> 
> Thanks
> 
> Allen
> 
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