File iteration in 2.2
Skip Montanaro
skip at pobox.com
Wed Aug 28 13:10:17 EDT 2002
Clarence> Your argument rests on the assertion "file iterators are
Clarence> really intended work like the F.xreadlines() method".
I will direct interested parties to a very long thread in Python-Dev during
July. Start here:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2002-July/thread.html
and search for "Single- vs. Multi-pass iterability". I think what it boils
down to is you shouldn't try too hard to pretend files are sequences.
Iteration is fine, but you can't "start over".
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Skip Montanaro
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