In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 7stud wrote:
> Anyway, it seems everyone is saying that when you iterate over a file, the
> whole file is first read into memory. Therefore iterating over sys.stdin
> is consistent: you have to type Ctrl+D to signal EOF before the iteration
> can start. Is that about right?
Not the whole file is read but a block of it. If you type in enough to
fill the buffer the iteration can start without an EOF on `sys.stdin`.
See the second example in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> which
demonstrates that not the whole file is read at once by the iterator.
Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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