Bob Smith wrote:
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)
It doesn't make any difference. .readlines reads the entire file into memory at once.
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