On Jul 23, 12:18 pm, Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Whatever, the iterator makes the code both cleaner and faster. It is at > the expense of not being suitable for interactive sessions, or in some > cases pipes, but for those situations you can continue to use readline > and the extra overhead in runtime will not likely be noticable.
But *why* is it so ? If Python calls fgets() which already has internal buffering, why is the extra buffering gaining so much ? -Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
