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Fri Oct 13 07:50:27 EDT 2000

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Alex wrote:
> Here's your error: StringIo needs to be initialized with
> a string, not with a list of strings, which is what you're
> giving it here.
>
> Use, instead:
>
> >>> fstr = StringIO(file.readline())

better make that:

>>> fstr = StringIO(file.read())

> Note the difference: file.readline() returns the file's
> contents as a single string; file.readlines() returns
> it as a list of strings (one per line).

readline() reads a single line, read() (without
arguments) reads until end of file.

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