Signal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2. Is there anyway to somehow to take advantage of this "caching" by > initializing it without reading through the entire file first? > > 3. If the answer to #2 is No, then is there a way to purge this > "cache" in order to get a more accurate result in my routine? That > is without having to read another large file first?
On a Unix system the standard way to purge the cache is to unmount the file system and remount it. If you can't do that on Windows, you can get the same effect by placing the test files on an external (USB) hard drive; unplugging the drive and plugging it back again will almost certainly force the OS to flush any associated caches. Having to do that is annoying, even as a last resort, but still better than nothing. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
