Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > I tried the splitlines() version you suggested, it thrashed my machine > so badly I pressed alt+sysrq+f (which invokes kernel oom_kill) after > about 1 minute so I didn't lose anything important.
This sounds very weird. How much memory do you have, and how large are the .gz files you are reading? What is your system exactly? ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7471> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
