On Aug 25, 4:57 am, mosscliffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have 4 text files each approx 50mb.
>
<yawn> 50mb? Really? Did you actually try this and find out it was a
problem?
Try this:
import time
start = time.clock()
outname = "temp.dat"
outfile = file(outname,"w")
for inname in ['file1.dat', 'file2.dat', 'file3.dat', 'file4.dat']:
infile = file(inname)
outfile.write( infile.read() )
infile.close()
outfile.close()
end = time.clock()
print end-start,"seconds"
For 4 30Mb files, this takes just over 1.3 seconds on my system. (You
may need to open files in binary mode, depending on the contents, but
I was in a hurry.)
-- Paul
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