it doesn't.  read the patch.  it adds a __reversed__ method.

 http://bugs.python.org/file8902/reverse-file-iterator-20071209.diff

On 12/9/07, Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Mark Russell wrote:
> > I posted a patch (http://bugs.python.org/issue1677872) a while ago to
> > add support for reverse iteration through text files - i.e. making
> > this work:
> >
> >       for line in reversed(open(path)):
> >           print line
>
> If this involves hacking reversed() to give it special
> knowledge of files, I'm not sure it's the best place
> to put it.
>
> --
> Greg
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