On 17 Jul., 17:55, Terry Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:14:45 -0700 (PDT), Uwe Schmitt > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I had a look at tarfile.py in my current Python 2.5 installations > >lib path. The iterator caches TarInfo objects in a list > >tf.members . If you only want to iterate and you are not interested > >in more functionallity, you could use "tf.members=[]" inside > >your loop. This is a dirty hack ! > > Thanks, Uwe. That works fine for me. It now reads through all 2.5 > million members, in about 30 minutes, never going above a 4M working > set.
Maybe we should post this issue to python-dev mailing list. Parsing large tar-files is not uncommon. Greetings, Uwe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list