reading line by line

[Michael P. Soulier]

    Hey people. I know that the readlines() method in file objects allows line
by line reading, but it seems to read the entire file first, which is far too
memory intensive if you're reading a massive file. Now, I know that you can do
this:

file = open(filename, "r")
line = file.readline()
while line:
    # work on file
    line = file.readline()

    But I don't like the initial readline() call to initialize line. It just
doesn't look clean to me. Is there a better way, syntactically, to do this?

    Thanks,

    Mike

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