On Sat, Jun 04, 2022 at 07:31:58AM -0000, Steve Jorgensen wrote: > A contrived use case: > > with open('document.txt', 'r') as io: > (line1, line2, *) = io >
with open('document.txt', 'r') as io: line1 = io.readline() line2 = io.readline() It would be lovely if readlines() took a parameter to specify the number of lines to return: line1, line2 = io.readlines(2) # Doesn't work :-( but alas and alack, the readlines() method has exactly the wrong API for that. I don't know what use the hint parameter is for readlines, it seems totally useless to me, and the wrong abstraction, counting bytes/characters instead of lines. Maybe we could add a keyword only argument? line1, line2 = io.readlines(count=2) Or there's always the explicit: line1, line2 = [io.readline() for j in (1, 2)] No need for new syntax for something so easy. -- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/CJHUXBIQ2FJL332AS22YBULI2CPF2IT4/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/