Antoine Pitrou added the comment:

> > So why not simply use BufferedReader?
> 
> Because we want good performance LZMAFile and compatibility with older
> versions.

You're reading me wrong. I'm simply suggesting that users interested in
readline() performance wrap LZMAFile in a BufferedReader. The
documentation can mention it.

>  And I guess that it will be even faster than wrapping in
> BufferedReader (due to the avoiding of double buffering).

Let's wait for the numbers, then. The performance increase would have to
be quite large to justify such code duplication.

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