bbarb...@inescporto.pt wrote: > I am using linecache.getline, to access to a line in a long file. It s > really fast, appx 4seconds, but I was just wandering if any of you, > know either another way, or there is something that I can do to speed > it up... thank you very much for your help!!
If it is a single file that never changes just read it into a list: with open(filename) as f: cached_lines = list(f) If that alone takes about 4 seconds the runtime of your script is spent reading the file from disk. An SSD might help then ;) In some situations you could delay reading line n until that line is actually needed. This may speed up your script for cases where all requested lines are near the beginning of the cached file. Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list