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[Angus Rodgers]

On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:53:51 +0100, I wrote:

>On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:31:47 -0500, Kirk Strauser 
><kirk at daycos.com> wrote:
>
>>At 2009-06-24T19:53:49Z, Angus Rodgers <twirlip at bigfoot.com> writes:
>>
>>> print ''.join(map(detab, f.xreadlines()))
>>
>>An equivalent in modern Pythons:
>>
>>>>> print ''.join(line.expandtabs(3) for line in file('h071.txt'))
>
>I guess the code below would also have worked in 2.1?
>(It does in 2.5.4.)
>
> print ''.join(line.expandtabs(3) for line in \
> file('h071.txt').xreadlines())

Possibly silly question (in for a penny ...): does the new feature,
by which a file becomes iterable, operate by some kind of coercion
of a file object to a list object, via something like x.readlines()?
<runs for cover>
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Angus Rodgers