[Tutor] beginner question

[Mayo Adams]

When writing a simple for loop like so:

     for x in f

where f is the name of a file object, how does Python "know" to interpret
the variable x as a line of text, rather than,say, an individual character
in the file? Does it automatically
treat text files as sequences of lines?

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