In article <[email protected]>, Terry Reedy <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 8/27/2011 1:45 PM, Roy Smith wrote: > > In article<[email protected]>, > > Steven D'Aprano<[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> open("file.txt") # opens the file > >> .read() # reads the contents of the file > >> .split("\n\n") # splits the text on double-newlines. > > > > The biggest problem with this code is that read() slurps the entire file > > into a string. That's fine for moderately sized files, but will fail > > (or at least be grossly inefficient) for very large files. > > I read the above as separating the file into paragraphs, as indicated by > blank lines. > > def paragraphs(file): > para = [] > for line in file: > if line: > para.append(line) > else: > yield para # or ''.join(para), as desired > para = [] Plus or minus the last paragraph in the file :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
