Think the following update will make the code more portable: x += len(line)+len(os.linesep)-1
Not sure if it's the fastest way to achieve that. :/ > On Fri, 17 May 2013 18:20:33 +0300, Carlos Nepomuceno wrote: > >> ### fastwrite5.py ### >> import cStringIO >> size = 50*1024*1024 >> value = 0 >> filename = 'fastwrite5.dat' >> x = 0 >> b = cStringIO.StringIO() >> while x < size: >> line = '{0}\n'.format(value) >> b.write(line) >> value += 1 >> x += len(line)+1 > > Oh, I forgot to mention: you have a bug in this function. You're already > including the newline in the len(line), so there is no need to add one. > The result is that you only generate 44MB instead of 50MB. > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list