an ugly file-reading pattern

[Skip Montanaro]

    Christian> Maybe you should have written it as :

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

    Christian> <2.2 wink>

Yeah, stupid mistake.  I had part of the OP's original solution (vrbl named
file) and part of mine...

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