iterating over lines in a file

[Thomas Wouters]

On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 10:16:33AM +0000, Remco Gerlich wrote:

> > > while (line = <FILE>) { block; }

> > The easiest way:

> > for line in file.readlines():
> >     block

> But that would read the whole thing into memory, and he doesn't want that.

> Wouldn't an xreadlines() method on file objects be cool?

There's the 'fileinput' module, which is almost exactly that. (It does some
extra things as well, if you wish ;)

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