Hmmm, Beazley book missing something?

[Jake Speed]

morpheus at here.not.there (Steve Lamb) wrote in
<slrn8oedf7.3li.grey at teleute.rpglink.com>: 

>On Tue, 01 Aug 2000 20:39:56 GMT, Steve Lamb <grey at despair.rpglink.com>
>wrote: 
>>    I see readline and readlines in there.  Only mention of it is in
>>    the 
>>multifile object.  No __doc__ string for those methods, either.  Did
>>this get overlooked in this book?

>    To be honest, the web page doesn't appear to have it in the relevant
>sections, either.

Library Reference -> Built-in Types -> File Objects

http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/typesother.html#SECTION004179000000000000000

Actually, for the 'while(<>)' idiom, you probably want:

import fileinput

for line in fileinput.input():
    	do_stuff(line)

http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-fileinput.html

Caveat: fileinput is a little slow, being written in
Python rather than C, but if do_stuff() does a lot of
stuff it probably doesn't matter.

-Speed!