On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 06:37 pm, Wolfgang Maier wrote: > On 25.02.2016 07:50, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> I have a need to read to an arbitrary delimiter, which might be any of a >> (small) set of characters. For the sake of the exercise, lets say it is >> either ! or ? (for example). >> > > You are not alone with your need. > > http://bugs.python.org/issue1152248 discusses the problem and has some > code snippets that you may be interested in. While there is no trivial > solution there are certainly faster ways than your first attempt.
Wow. Ten years and still no solution :-( Thanks for finding the issue, but the solutions given don't suit my use case. I don't want an iterator that operates on pre-read blocks, I want something that will read a record from a file, and leave the file pointer one entry past the end of the record. Oh, and records are likely fairly short, but there may be a lot of them. -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
