On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 3:54 AM, Antoine Pitrou <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> Antoine Pitrou <pitrou@free.fr> added the comment:
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>> Personally, I think that this functionality should be built into
>> Python's readlines. That's where a typical person would expect it to
>> be, and this is something that is supported by most other scripting
>> language I've used.
>
> Adding it to readline() and/or readlines() would modify the standard IO
> Abstract Base Classes, and would therefore probably need discussion on
> python-dev.

That's also the reason why I'm suggesting a separate readrecords()
method - the appropriate ABC should be able to implement it as a
concrete method based on something like the recipe above.