On 2009-03-26 01:41, Christian Heimes wrote: > No, you are wrong. file.readlines() reads the entire file into memory > and returns a list of strings. If you want to iterate over the lines of > a text file you can simply write: > > for line in myfile: > dosomethingwith(line) > > It won't work for a binary file, though.
Thanks for the information! (In my case it's always text and not even large, so reading in memory is OK. I just was curios.) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list