Douglas Alan added the comment:
Personally, I think that this functionality should be built into Python's
readlines. That's where a typical person would expect it to be, and this is
something that is supported by most other scripting language I've used. E.g.,
awk has the RS
Douglas Alan added the comment:
Until this feature gets built into Python, you can use a Python-coded generator
such as this one to accomplish the same effect:
def fileLineIter(inputFile,
inputNewline="\n",
outputNewline=None,
rea
Douglas Alan added the comment:
Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> Nick Coghlan added the comment:
> > Note that the problem with the read()+split() approach is that you
> > either have to read the whole file into memory (which this RFE is
trying
> > to avoid) or you have to do y
