[Python-ideas] Iterating non-newline-separated files should be easier

[Chris Angelico]

On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 5:10 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> I still favour my proposal there to add a separate "readrecords()"
> method, rather than reusing the line based iteration methods - lines
> and arbitrary records *aren't* the same thing

But they might well be the same thing. Look at all the Unix commands
that usually separate output with \n, but can be told to separate with
\0 instead. If you're reading from something like that, it should be
just as easy to split on \n as on \0.

ChrisA