Consider following piece of code:

f = file("test.txt", "rb")
pos = f.tell()
for line in f:
	print "%u: '%s'" % (pos, line)
	pos = f.tell()

During the code execution we have following result:

0 'Line 1'
63 'Line 2'
63 'Line 3'
...
63 'Line 9'

However, following piece of code works fine:

f = file("test.txt", "rb")
while True:
	pos = f.tell()
	line = f.readline()
	if line == "":
		break
	print "%u: '%s'" % (pos, line)

It prints:

0 'Line 1'
7 'Line 2'
14 'Line 3'
...
56 'Line 9'

It seems a file iterator makes file.tell() to tell
positions of some internal blocks used by the iterator.