while c = f.read(1)
Robert Kern
rkern at ucsd.edu
Fri Aug 19 07:22:05 EDT 2005
en.karpachov at ospaz.ru wrote:
> import itertools
> f = open("blah.txt", "r")
> for c in itertools.chain(*f):
> print c
> # ...
>
> The "f" is iterable itself, yielding a new line from the file every time.
> Lines are iterable as well, so the itertools.chain iterates through each
> line and yields a character.
As far as I can tell, that code is just going to read the whole file in
when Python does the *arg expansion. What's the point?
--
Robert Kern
rkern at ucsd.edu
"In the fields of hell where the grass grows high
Are the graves of dreams allowed to die."
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