[Python-ideas] Is there a reason why file.readlines() doesn't/can't return an iterator?
Peter Otten
__peter__ at web.de
Wed Nov 30 18:53:56 CET 2011
Éric Araujo wrote:
> Okay. You can open a report on bugs.python.org to ask that the doc for
> readlines mention list(fp) as an alternative.
That would make sense to me only if readlines() were deprecated. I did
something slightly different, propose a hint that the user should avoid
readlines() in a for-loop, see
http://bugs.python.org/issue13510
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