[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I think this is what you want: > > file = open(r'c:/test.txt','r') > > c = file.read(3) > while c: > print c > c = file.read(3) > > file.close();
Or: def read3(): return file.read(3) for chars in iter(read3, ''): ... do something with chars ... STeVe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list