Meador Inge <mead...@gmail.com> added the comment: I am skeptical that such a note will help. The iterator behavior is clearly pointed out in the Python Tutorial [1] and in the IOBase documentation [2]. I suspect this bad code pattern is just being copied and pasted from other sources without folks ever even looking at the Python documentation.
[1] http://docs.python.org/dev/tutorial/inputoutput.html?highlight=readlines#methods-of-file-objects [2] http://docs.python.org/dev/library/io.html#io.IOBase ---------- nosy: +meador.inge _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13510> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com