[Python-Dev] Is file.readlines(sizehint=N) broken on 2.7?

[Guido van Rossum]

It's a *hint*, remember? :-) It does work, it's just rounded up to a
fairly large number in some implementations.

On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Giampaolo Rodolà <g.rodola at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2013/4/5 INADA Naoki <songofacandy at gmail.com>:
>> The builtin open() was replaced with io.open().
>> It's difference between file.readlines() and io.IOBase.readlines().
>
> Should that justify this difference in behavior?
> Apparently on 2.X sizehint does not have any effect as far as I can see.
>
> --- Giampaolo
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