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Sean Reifschneider jafo-pythonlist at tummy.com
Thu Feb 15 19:04:19 EST 2001 
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 01:22:39PM +0000, Jeff Epler wrote:
>I'd say, "xreadlines will never hold more than a few KB of the file
>in memory", but that's wrong if you have a file with a multi-megabyte line.

Say "xreadlines()" will never hold more than a single line of the file in
memory.  Note the implications if you feed it a file with multi-megabyte
line(s).

Sean
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