On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:27:13 am you wrote: > I think he thinks that python is going to read the whole 3.6GB of > data into memory in one hit, rather than using a small amount of > memory to process it line by line. But "for line in datafile" in your > code above uses a generator, right? So I don't think it's a problem - > correct me if I'm wrong.
No, you are correct -- "for line in file" reads one line at a time. Beware, though, if the file isn't line-oriented, then each "line" (separated with a newline character) could be huge. -- Steven D'Aprano _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
