iterating over lines in a file

[Remco Gerlich]

nobody wrote in comp.lang.python:
> (fwiw, my prefeerence for this stems mostly from a liking for brevity;

There's another common idiom noone mentioned yet:

import fileinput

for line in fileinput.input("somefile"):
   process(line)

(it opens it for you too)
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Remco Gerlich,  scarblac at pino.selwerd.nl
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