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		throwaway_pdp09 on Aug 22, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: F (2006) I didn't know you could simply open a file and setify it. Interesting. & neat.

fennecfoxen on Aug 22, 2020 [–]

You can setify any iterable. File handles are iterables that return a line at a time. Tada!

throwaway_pdp09 on Aug 22, 2020 | [–]

> File handles are iterables...

I did not know that. Assumed you had to somehow wrap them first. Very useful, thanks!

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