reading in lines from a file -FAST!

[Erik Max Francis]

Mark Day wrote:

> How about:
>     s = f.read()
> (assuming f is a file object)

Or, if he wants to do it 1.7 MB at a time, something like:

	while True:
	    chunk = f.read(1700000)
	    if not chunk:
	        break
	    # handle chunk here

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