Xah Lee wrote:
# reading entire file as a list, of lines # mylist = f.readlines()
To do this efficiently on a large file (dozens or hundreds of megs), you should use the 'sizehint' parameter so as not to use too much memory:
sizehint = 0 mylist = f.readlines(sizehint)
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