Craig Ringer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > .>>> data = ''.join(x for x in infile)
Maybe ''.join(infile) is a better way to express this functionality? Avoids 2.4 dependency and should be faster as well as more concise. > Might it be worth providing a way to have file objects seek back to the > current position of the iterator when read() etc are called? If not, I It's certainly worth doing a patch and see what the python-dev crowd thinks of it, I think; it might make it into 2.5. > favour the suggestion in the referenced post - file should probably fail > noisily, or at least emit a warning. Under what conditions, exactly, would you want such an exception? Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
