Grant Edwards schrieb: > On 2007-06-14, Leo Kislov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Jun 13, 5:40 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I am running Python 2.5 on Feisty Ubuntu. I came across some code that >>> is substantially slower when in a method than in a function. >>> >>>>>> cProfile.run("bar.readgenome(open('cb_foo'))") >>> 20004 function calls in 10.214 CPU seconds >>>>>> cProfile.run("z=r.readgenome(open('cb_foo'))") >>> 20004 function calls in 0.041 CPU seconds >>> >> I suspect open files are cached > > They shouldn't be. > >> so the second reader picks up where the first one left: at the >> of the file. > > That sounds like a bug. Opening a file a second time should > produce a "new" file object with the file-pointer at the > beginning of the file.
It's a OS thing. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list