[Python-3000] Reverse file iteration patch updated

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 07:12:54PM +1300, Greg Ewing wrote:
> Mark Russell wrote:
> > I posted a patch (http://bugs.python.org/issue1677872) a while ago to  
> > add support for reverse iteration through text files - i.e. making  
> > this work:
> > 
> >       for line in reversed(open(path)):
> >           print line
> 
> If this involves hacking reversed() to give it special
> knowledge of files, I'm not sure it's the best place
> to put it.

   It adds a method __reversed__() to class io.TextIOWrapper:

http://bugs.python.org/file8902/reverse-file-iterator-20071209.diff

   Looks good for me.

Oleg.
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