On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:28:08 -0500, "Shankarjee Krishnamoorthi"
<shankarjee@gmail.com> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:

> I would prefer to use something with seek. I am not able to use seek()
> with "for line in inp". Use tell and seek does not seem to do anything
> with the code. When I try to do
>
> for line in inp.readlines():

.readlines() does just what is says -- it reads ALL lines at once.
Once it has done this, .tell() will return the EOF.

for line in inp:

will read one line at a time (I'm fairly sure the iterator doesn't
attempt to buffer multiple lines behind the scenes)
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