looping through a file

[Steven Taschuk]

Quoth John J. Lee:
> bokr at oz.net (Bengt Richter) writes:
  [woes with file iterators reading ahead]
> > >I gathered from a recent thread that this has changed -- the file is
> > >its own iterator now.  Was the old behaviour ever released in 2.2, or
> > >was it just part of a 2.3 beta?
> > >
> > Curious what was changed ...
> 
> I'm not certain it has changed -- haven't tested.

2.3 has the change, 2.2.2 does not:

    Python 2.2.2 (#1, Jun 19 2003, 11:01:48) 
    >>> fp = file('foo')
    >>> iter(fp) is fp
    0

    Python 2.3b1 (#1, Apr 30 2003, 22:25:58) 
    >>> fp = file('foo')
    >>> iter(fp) is fp
    True

(I don't know about 2.2.3.)

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