diff --git a/pym/portage/cache/flat_hash.py b/pym/portage/cache/flat_hash.py
index 71ddf60..3f126c3 100644
--- a/pym/portage/cache/flat_hash.py
+++ b/pym/portage/cache/flat_hash.py
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ class database(fs_template.FsBased):
 		try:
 			myf = codecs.open(fp, mode='r', encoding='utf_8', errors='replace')
 			try:
-				d = self._parse_data(myf, cpv)
+				d = self._parse_data(myf.readlines(), cpv)
 				if '_mtime_' not in d:
 					# Backward compatibility with old cache
 					# that uses mtime mangling.
@@ -87,7 +87,6 @@ class database(fs_template.FsBased):
 			os.remove(fp)
 			raise cache_errors.CacheCorruption(cpv, e)
 
-
 	def _delitem(self, cpv):
 #		import pdb;pdb.set_trace()
 		try:
@@ -98,11 +97,9 @@ class database(fs_template.FsBased):
 			else:
 				raise cache_errors.CacheCorruption(cpv, e)
 
-
 	def __contains__(self, cpv):
 		return os.path.exists(os.path.join(self.location, cpv))
 
-
 	def __iter__(self):
 		"""generator for walking the dir struct"""
 		dirs = [self.location]
diff --git a/pym/portage/cache/metadata.py b/pym/portage/cache/metadata.py
index 724dce3..b51bf98 100644
--- a/pym/portage/cache/metadata.py
+++ b/pym/portage/cache/metadata.py
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ class database(flat_hash.database):
 
 	def _parse_data(self, data, cpv):
 		_hashed_re_match = self._hashed_re.match
-		data = list(data)
 		d = {}
 
 		for line in data: