14 Jul
2002
14 Jul
'02
7:45 p.m.
Oren Tirosh oren-py-d@hishome.net:
A file object is an iterator pretending to be a container. For historical reasons it uses 'readline' instead of 'next'
I think it's more complicated than that. If the file object were to become an object obeying the iterator protocol, its next() method should really return the next *byte* of the file. Then you'd still want methods like read(), readline() etc. for reading in larger chunks.
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