Erik Max Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is really wasteful, as there's no point in reading in the whole > file before iterating over it. To get the same effect as file > iteration in later versions, use the .xreadlines method:: > > for line in aFile.xreadlines(): > ...
Ehhh, a heck of a lot of web pages don't have any newlines, so you end up getting the whole file anyway, with that method. Something like for line in iter(lambda: aFile.read(4096), ''): ... may be best. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list