[issue1152248] Enhance file.readlines by making line separator selectable

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> Personally, I think that this functionality should be built into
> Python's readlines. That's where a typical person would expect it to
> be, and this is something that is supported by most other scripting
> language I've used.

Adding it to readline() and/or readlines() would modify the standard IO
Abstract Base Classes, and would therefore probably need discussion on
python-dev.

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