From: Mark Wilson Date: 2003-08-19T09:14:16+09:00 Subject: Re: Question: immutable strings as design goal? While we're still on the subject of Python and Guido Von Rossum's blog entry, I noted the following: "but for me the high point of the evening was Miguel de Icaza's excitement over Python's feature which makes text files iterators yielding the lines of the file in succession, so that you can write for line in open(filename): ...process line... " At which point I sighed. Regards, Mark