On 10/6/2010 11:58 AM Joel Goldstick said...
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Emile van Sebille<em...@fenx.com> wrote:
On 10/6/2010 9:25 AM Eduardo Vieira said...
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Of course this solution is simpler:
extracted = a[a.index("i")+1:]
But I didn't want to build a list in memory with "readlines()" in the
case of a file.
This is what I do unless the files are _really big_
For-me-really-big-is-over-200Mb-ish-ly y'rs,
Emile
Why not loop with readline() and then the slice. That way only one line at
time in memory
Because I'd consider that a premature optimization. I don't commonly
worry about managing the memory footprint until there's a reason to.
I've found that you can work to minimize the footprint, but as it's
often indeterminate, you can't really control it. So I don't.
Emile
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