Re: Python 3.0 slow file IO

2009-02-06 Thread thomasvang...@gmail.com
Thanks a lot for all the responses. I'll move back to Python 2.5 for compatibility with SciPY and some other third party packages. I'll leave the compilation process for some other day, for now I'm a happy user, mayve In the future I would like to contribute to the developmental process.. --

Python 3.0 slow file IO

2009-02-05 Thread thomasvang...@gmail.com
I just recently learned python, I'm using it mainly to process huge 5GB txt files of ASCII information about DNA. I've decided to learn 3.0, but maybe I need to step back to 2.6? I'm getting exceedingly frustrated by the slow file IO behaviour of python 3.0. I know that a bug-report was submitted

Re: Python 3.0 slow file IO

2009-02-05 Thread Ulrich Eckhardt
thomasvang...@gmail.com wrote: C:\python30 patch -p0 fileio_buffer.patch The patch command is not recognized.. You need the 'patch' program first. Further, you will need a C compiler. If you don't know how to compile from sources, I would postpone patching sources to after learning that.

Re: Python 3.0 slow file IO

2009-02-05 Thread Christian Heimes
thomasvang...@gmail.com schrieb: I just recently learned python, I'm using it mainly to process huge 5GB txt files of ASCII information about DNA. I've decided to learn 3.0, but maybe I need to step back to 2.6? I'm getting exceedingly frustrated by the slow file IO behaviour of python 3.0.

Re: Python 3.0 slow file IO

2009-02-05 Thread rdmurray
Quoth Christian Heimes li...@cheimes.de: thomasvang...@gmail.com schrieb: I just recently learned python, I'm using it mainly to process huge 5GB txt files of ASCII information about DNA. I've decided to learn 3.0, but maybe I need to step back to 2.6? I'm getting exceedingly