On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 07:12:54PM +1300, Greg Ewing wrote:
> Mark Russell wrote:
> > I posted a patch (http://bugs.python.org/issue1677872) a while ago to
> > add support for reverse iteration through text files - i.e. making
> > this work:
> >
> > for line in reversed(open(path)):
> >
it doesn't. read the patch. it adds a __reversed__ method.
http://bugs.python.org/file8902/reverse-file-iterator-20071209.diff
On 12/9/07, Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Mark Russell wrote:
> > I posted a patch (http://bugs.python.org/issue1677872) a while ago to
> > add support for
Mark Russell wrote:
> I posted a patch (http://bugs.python.org/issue1677872) a while ago to
> add support for reverse iteration through text files - i.e. making
> this work:
>
> for line in reversed(open(path)):
> print line
If this involves hacking reversed() to give it speci
I posted a patch (http://bugs.python.org/issue1677872) a while ago to
add support for reverse iteration through text files - i.e. making
this work:
for line in reversed(open(path)):
print line
It steps through the file backwards a line at a time, without reading
the entire f
