an ugly file-reading pattern

[Christian Tanzer]

Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> wrote:

> Recent versions of Python (2.2 and later) allow this:
>
>     file = file("somefile")
>     for line in file:
>         process(line)
>
> It does the right thing from an efficiency standpoint, neither slurping the
> file in all at once nor reading it line-by-line or char-by-char.
>
> Note also that in 2.2 and later there is a file object in builtins ("open"
> and "file" are the same object).  "open" is discouraged.  "file" is
> preferred.

Maybe you should have written it as :

    open = file("somefile")
    for line in open:
        process(line)

<2.2 wink>

Hiding-builtins-often-bytes-the-unwary-ly yr's,

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