[Python-ideas] Is there a reason why file.readlines() doesn't/can't return an iterator?

[Yuval Greenfield]

Since we marginally brushed the subject of backwards compatibility
damning...

I'm kind of surprised that files do that. Now that I check I'm surprised
that StringIO does that.

text = 'asdf\nword'
for item in StringIO(text):    !=    for item in text:

I'm not sure if I like that.

--Yuval
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