[ANN] xreadlines patch on sourceforge

[D-Man]

Cool!  I was thinking about such a thing with the "while 1:" thread.

-D

On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 03:41:55AM +0000, Jeff Epler wrote:
> I've just uploaded my "xreadlines" patch to Sourceforge.  You can
> retrieve it from the Patch Manager, and it is my hope that it will
> be considered for inclusion in Python 2.1.
> 
> xreadlines, inspired by xrange, permits a simple 'for' loop to iterate
> over the contents of a file without reading the entire file at once.
> 
> xreadlines is both a new extension module, as well as an additional
> method on file objects.  It includes an entry for the test suite,
> as well as a modified 'fileinput' module which has a >2x speed
> improvement by using the xreadlines function.
> 
> example:
> 
> def wc(filename):
> 	l=w=c=0
> 	for line in open(filename).xreadlines():
> 		c=c+len(line)
> 		w=w+len(line.split())
> 		l=l+1
> 	return (l,w,c)
> 
> 
> Jeff Epler
> jepler at inetnebr.com
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