Paul Rubin wrote: > If you know in advance that the page you're retrieving will be > reasonable in size, then using readlines is fine. If you don't know > in advance what you're retrieving (e.g. you're working on a crawler) > you have to assume that you'll hit some very large pages with > difficult construction.
And that's before you even mention the point that, depending on the application, it could easily open yourself up to a DOS attack. There's premature optimization, and then there's premature completely obvious and pointless waste. This falls in the latter category. Besides, someone was asking for/needing an older equivalent to iterating over a file. That's obviously .xreadlines, not .readlines. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM, Y!M erikmaxfrancis The more violent the love, the more violent the anger. -- _Burmese Proverbs_ (tr. Hla Pe) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
