On 6/27/05, Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As Douglas Alan's sample implementation (and his second attempt [1]) > show, getting this right (and reasonably efficient) is actually a > non-trivial exercise. Leveraging the existing xreadlines > infrastructure is an idea worth considering. > > I think it's worth leaving this one open, and see if someone comes up > with a patch (obviously, this was my opinion from the start, or I > wouldn't have raised the RFE in response to Douglas's query!)
As a more general approach, would it be worth considering an addition to itertools which took an iterator which generated "blocks" of items, and split them on a subsequence? It's a generalisation of the basic pattern here, and would be able to encapsulate the fiddly "what if a separator overlaps a block split" logic without locking it down to string manipulation... Or does that count as overgeneralisation? Paul. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
