Re: Open a command pipe for reading

2010-08-23 Thread Stefan Schwarzer
Hi Rodrick, On 2010-08-17 18:40, Rodrick Brown wrote: I have a fairly large file 1-2GB in size that I need to process line by line but I first need to convert the file to text using a 3rd party tool that prints the records also line by line. I've tried using Popen to do this with no luck.

Re: Open a command pipe for reading

2010-08-21 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In message mailman.2236.1282063313.1673.python-l...@python.org, Rodrick Brown wrote: Sent from my iPhone 4. Glad to hear you achieved it without losing the signal. :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Open a command pipe for reading

2010-08-17 Thread Rodrick Brown
I have a fairly large file 1-2GB in size that I need to process line by line but I first need to convert the file to text using a 3rd party tool that prints the records also line by line. I've tried using Popen to do this with no luck. I'm trying to simulate /bin/foo myfile.dat And as the

Re: Open a command pipe for reading

2010-08-17 Thread Chris Rebert
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Rodrick Brown rodrick.br...@gmail.com wrote: I have a fairly large file 1-2GB in size that I need to process line by line but I first need to convert the file to text using a 3rd party tool that prints the records also line by line. I've tried using Popen to

Re: Open a command pipe for reading

2010-08-17 Thread Thomas Jollans
On Tuesday 17 August 2010, it occurred to Rodrick Brown to exclaim: I have a fairly large file 1-2GB in size that I need to process line by line but I first need to convert the file to text using a 3rd party tool that prints the records also line by line. I've tried using Popen to do this