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Re: How to read from a file to an arbitrary delimiter efficiently?

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On Sat, 27 Feb 2016 21:40:17 +1100, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> Thanks for finding the issue, but the solutions given don't suit my
> use case. I don't want an iterator that operates on pre-read blocks, I
> want something that will read a record from a file, and leave the file
> pointer one entry past the end of the record.

A file is a stream of bytes, but you want to view it as a stream of
records.  It sounds like you want an abstraction layer, and it sounds
like you also want to let the file leak through that layer when it's
convenient.  (Yes, I spun that horribly on purpose, and I understand the
use case of imposing some structure on part of a file, and possibly a
different structure on a different part of a file.  MIME messages and
literate programming files spring to mind.)

Perhaps (as I think ChrisA suggested), you could provide your own
buffering/chunking layer between your application and the file itself,
and never let the application see the file directly.

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How to read from a file to an arbitrary delimiter efficiently? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2016-02-25 17:50 +1100
  Re: How to read from a file to an arbitrary delimiter efficiently? Wolfgang Maier <wolfgang.maier@biologie.uni-freiburg.de> - 2016-02-25 08:37 +0100
    Re: How to read from a file to an arbitrary delimiter efficiently? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-02-27 21:40 +1100
      Re: How to read from a file to an arbitrary delimiter efficiently? Dan Sommers <dan@tombstonezero.net> - 2016-02-27 14:40 +0000
      Re: How to read from a file to an arbitrary delimiter efficiently? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-02-27 12:03 -0500
        Re: How to read from a file to an arbitrary delimiter efficiently? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-02-27 19:47 +0200
  Re: How to read from a file to an arbitrary delimiter efficiently? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-02-25 18:30 +1100
    Re: How to read from a file to an arbitrary delimiter efficiently? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-02-27 20:49 +1100
      Re: How to read from a file to an arbitrary delimiter efficiently? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-02-27 23:17 +1100
      Re: How to read from a file to an arbitrary delimiter efficiently? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-02-27 23:18 +1100
      Re: How to read from a file to an arbitrary delimiter efficiently? Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> - 2016-02-27 17:23 +0200
  Re: How to read from a file to an arbitrary delimiter efficiently? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-02-24 23:48 -0800
    Re: How to read from a file to an arbitrary delimiter efficiently? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2016-02-25 06:37 -0800
    Re: How to read from a file to an arbitrary delimiter efficiently? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2016-02-25 06:38 -0800
  Re: How to read from a file to an arbitrary delimiter efficiently? BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-02-27 16:35 +0000
    Re: How to read from a file to an arbitrary delimiter efficiently? BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-02-27 20:03 +0000
      Re: How to read from a file to an arbitrary delimiter efficiently? BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-02-27 20:28 +0000
  Re: How to read from a file to an arbitrary delimiter efficiently? Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2016-02-28 20:28 +0000
  Re: How to read from a file to an arbitrary delimiter efficiently? Tim Delaney <timothy.c.delaney@gmail.com> - 2016-02-29 08:00 +1100

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