Walter Dörwald wrote: > I think a maxsplit argument (just as for unicode.split()) would help too.
Correct - that would allow to get rid of the quadratic part. We should also strive for avoiding the second copy of the line, if the user requested keepends. I wonder whether it would be worthwhile to cache the .splitlines result. An application that has just invoked .readline() will likely invoke .readline() again. If there is more than one line left, we could return the first line right away (potentially trimming the line ending if necessary). Only when a single line is left, we would attempt to read more data. In a plain .read(), we would first join the lines back. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ 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
