On Sun, 3 Jul 2005 23:52:12 +0200, martian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I've a couple of questions regarding the processing of a big text file
>(16MB).
>
>1) how does python handle:
>
>> for line in big_file:
>
>is big_file all read into memory or one line is read at a time or a buffer
>is used or ...?
It uses an internal buffer to reach a happy medium between performance and
memory usage.
>
>2) is it possible to advance lines within the loop? The following doesn't
>work:
>
>> for line in big_file:
> line_after = big_file.readline()
>
Yes, but you need to do it like this:
fileIter = iter(big_file)
for line in fileIter:
line_after = fileIter.next()
Don't mix iterating with any other file methods, since it will confuse the
buffering scheme.
Jp
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