Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2007-07-25, Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> That might be a memory problem if you are running multiple processes >> regularly, such as on a webserver. > > I suppose if you did it in parallel 50 processes, you could use > up 250MB of RAM. Still not a big deal on many servers. A > decent OS will swap regions that aren't being used to disk, so > it's likely not to be a problem.
Or, you might be reading from a text file dramatically larger than a 3MB copy of War and Peace. I regularly deal with log files that are often many times that, including some that have been well over a GB or more. Trust me, you don't want to read in the entire file when it's a 1.5GB text file. It's true that many times readlines() will work fine, but there are also certainly cases where it's not acceptable for memory and performance reasons. -Jay -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
