On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 01:50:16 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > If you actually need character-by-character, you'd need "for character > in fh.read()" rather than iterating over the file itself. Iterating over > a file yields lines.
Indeed. But I wonder if there's a performance cost/gain to iterating over each line, rather than reading one char at a time? for line in file: for c in line: ... Too lazy to actually test it myself, but just tossing this idea out in case anyone else cares to give it a try. -- Steve -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list