Josh Rosenberg added the comment:

On memory: Yeah, it could be if the file didn't include any newline characters. 
Same problem could apply if a text input file relied on word wrap in an editor 
and included very few or no newlines itself.

There are non-fileinput ways of doing this, like I said; if you want consistent 
performance, you'd probably use one of them. For example, using the two arg 
form of iter:

    from functools import partial

    def bytefileinput(files):
        for file in files:
            with open(filename, "rb") as f:
                yield from iter(partial(f.read, 1), b'')

Still kind of slow, but predictable on memory usage and not to complex.

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