Question about file objects...

[J]

Something that came up in class...

when you are pulling data from a file using f.next(), the file is read
one line at a time.

What was explained to us is that Python iterates the file based on a
carriage return as the delimiter.
But what if you have a file that has one line of text, but that one
line has 16,000 items that are comma delimited?

Is there a way to read the file, one item at a time, delimited by
commas WITHOUT having to read all 16,000 items from that one line,
then split them out into a list or dictionary??

Cheers
Jeff

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