iostream-like lib?

[Max Khesin]

efficiency is a possible reason. my files may be very large and i would not
like to read a couple of meg (if the line is that long) and then call split
on it just to get the next word.

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"Anton Muhin" <antonmuhin at sendmail.ru> wrote in message
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> Max Khesin wrote:
> > The trouble is that readline() reads more than i have to in the first
place,
> > even before I call split().
> > I did hack it along the lines you suggested with a generator (limiting
> > readline() to a number of bytes and accounting for the last character
being
> > possibly whitespace). I was just wondering if (and why not) there is/is
not
> > direct support for whitespace-delimited input.
>
> I don't know :)
>
> The only thig I want to add: I see no reason why you should limit
> readline with number of bytes? Doesn't the following code (untested) work?
>
> def read_tokens(filename):
>      f = file(filename)
>      for l in f:
>           for token in l.split():
>                yield token
>      close(f)
>
> Best regards,
> anton.
>