Peter Otten wrote: >>>> class frankenstring(StringIO): > ... def next(self): > ... c = self.read(1) > ... if not c: > ... raise StopIteration > ... return c
Repeated read(1) on a file-like object is one of the ways of doing it with existing tools I labelled "clumsy" in the original posting ;o) Thanks anyway. -- Thomas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
