"Daley, Mark W" <mark.w.daley at intel.com> wrote in message news:75F7304BB41CD411B06600A0C98414FCB36815 at ORSMSX54... > Isn't the argument for readlines() a memory size, as in 512 bytes? If so, > it is possible to have 3509 lines that are <= 512 bytes. How? Each line occupies at least one byte, its \n... Alex