Hi, In a recent thread I discovered why the "for line in f" idiom was not suitable for live sources (pipes, sockets, tty). The reason is that it uses buffering on input, blocking on a full buffer read before anything. When I asked why it did it this way, the answer came up that it made it faster.
Now, *why* is such buffering gaining speed over stdio's fgets(), which already does input buffering (though in a more subtle way, which makes it still usable with pipes etc.) ? -Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
