iterating over lines in a file

[Remco Gerlich]

Kirill Simonov wrote in comp.lang.python:
> On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 07:14:15PM -0500, nobody wrote:
> 
> > while (line = <FILE>) { block; }
> 
> The easiest way:
> 
> for line in file.readlines():
>     block

But that would read the whole thing into memory, and he doesn't want that.

Wouldn't an xreadlines() method on file objects be cool?

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