Claudio Grondi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a ready to use (free, best Open Source) tool able to sort > lines (each line appr. 20 bytes long) of a XXX GByte large text file > (i.e. in place) taking full advantage of available memory to speed up > the process as much as possible?
Try the standard Unix/Linux sort utility. Use the --buffer-size=SIZE to tell it how much memory to use. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list