Is it not possible to wrap your loop below within a loop doing
file.read([size]) (or readline() or readlines([size]),
reading the file a chunk at a time then running your re on a per-chunk
basis?-ej "Erick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Ack, typo. What I meant was this: > cat a b c > blah > > >>> import re > >>> for m in re.finditer('\w+', file('blah')): > > ... print m.group() > ... > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? > TypeError: buffer object expected > > Of course, this works fine, but it loads the file completely into > memory (right?): > >>> for m in re.finditer('\w+', file('blah').read()): > ... print m.group() > ... > a > b > c > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
