Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> added the comment: I agree with Antoine - given that the newlines parameter now deals with Skip's alternate line separator use case, a new method "readrecords" that takes a mandatory record separator makes more sense than using readlines to read things that are not lines. (of course, taking the alternate line ending use case away also reduces the total number of use cases for the new method).
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 your own buffering and so forth to split records as you go. Since the latter is both difficult to get right and very similar to what the IO module already has to do for readlines(), it makes sense to include the extra complexity there. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1152248> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
