Specific question about readlines versus xreadlines

Erik Max Francis max at alcyone.com
Wed Mar 17 19:43:20 EST 2004


Pernell Williams wrote:

> Thank you for your responses. I have a more specific question about
> "file.seek() and file.readline()" versus "file.seek() and
> file.xreadlines".

The latter won't work, since F.xreadlines buffers its reads.

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