Change newline character .readline() seeks

Question

Is it possible to change the newline character the .readline() method looks for while reading lines? I might have the need to read a stream from a file object

Answer 1

No.

Consider creating a generator using file.read() and yielding chunks delimited by given character.

Edit:

The sample you provided should work just fine. I would prefer to use a generator though:

def chunks(file, delim='\n'):
    buf = bytearray(), 
    while True:
        c = self.read(1)
        if c == '': return
        buf += c
        if c == delim: 
            yield str(buf)
            buf = bytearray()