On 6/27/05, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote: > As Douglas Alan's sample implementation (and his second attempt [1]) > show, getting this right (and reasonably efficient) is actually a > non-trivial exercise. Leveraging the existing xreadlines > infrastructure is an idea worth considering. > > I think it's worth leaving this one open, and see if someone comes up > with a patch (obviously, this was my opinion from the start, or I > wouldn't have raised the RFE in response to Douglas's query!) As a more general approach, would it be worth considering an addition to itertools which took an iterator which generated "blocks" of items, and split them on a subsequence? It's a generalisation of the basic pattern here, and would be able to encapsulate the fiddly "what if a separator overlaps a block split" logic without locking it down to string manipulation... Or does that count as overgeneralisation? Paul.
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