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

[Antoine Pitrou]

Le 19/07/2014 05:01, Steven D'Aprano a écrit :
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> I open a file with some record-separator
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>    fp = open(filename, newline="\0")

Hmm... newline="\0" already *looks* wrong. To me, it's a hint that 
you're abusing the API.

The main advantage of it, though, is that you can use iteration in 
addition to the regular readline() (or readrecord()) method.

Regards

Antoine.