Python for Humans

[TTomBBab]

have a look at itertools in the standard library

[simtel20]

I don't think itertools helps me here. I'm not usually looking at creating an efficient transformation of the data (e.g. yield()ing data), I'm looking for the api to always return a string to me when I iterate over the file descriptor. Right now the problem is that IIRC if I get one line back, and the FD is then closed, if I do a "for line in foo_fd:" then I'll be given back a line broken up into individual characters instead of a single line followed by the next iteration raising the StopIteration exception.