On 2007-06-01, Tijs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Howell wrote: >>> >>> from blockread import BlockReader >>> >>> b = BlockReader(f, boundary='>') >>> for block in b: >>> # whatever >> >> Yep, I like this idea. You might have a few >> variations: > > Yes, or a single one that takes a wide range of construction > possibilities, like strings, lambdas or regexes in various > keyword parameters. > > BlockReader(f, start='>') > BlockReader(f, start=re.compile('>|<'), end='---') > BlockReader(f, start=lambda x: x.startswith('>')) > > Maybe make variations for character-based readers and > line-based readers.
I would prefer, "f.readlines(delim='>')" etc., a la C++ str::getline. -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list