[email protected] 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
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