Recently I was iterating through both a list and a file and I noticed a difference in behavior. When I create an iterator for a list by calling iter(list_name) and then call the iterators next method I get the first element in the list. When I then create another iterator over the same list and call that iterators next method I again get the first element of the list, as I expected. When I create 2 iterators on a file in the manner described above that second iterator returns the second line of the file. This seems inconsistent. Am I doing something wrong? Is there a reason for this?
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