On 6/27/05, Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote: > > 1152248: > > In order to read "records" separated by something other than newline, file > > objects > > should either support an additional parameter (the separator) to > > (x)readlines(), > > or gain an additional method which does this. > > Review: The former is a no-go, I think, because what is read won't be lines. > > The latter is further complicating the file interface, so I would follow the > > principle that not every 3-line function should be builtin. > > 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.
Do you mean the existing xreadlines infrustructure that no longer exists since 2.4 ? :-) An infrastructure that could be leveraged is the readahead buffer used by the file object's line iterator. Oren _______________________________________________ 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
