In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sean Davis wrote: > I have a VERY large file that I would > like to load a line at a time, do some manipulations on it, and then > make it available to as a file-like object for use as input to a > database module (psycopg2) that wants a file-like object (with read > and readlines methods). I could write the manipulated file out to > disk and then read it back in, but that seems wasteful.
If your consumer doesn't need to seek, how about having it read from a pipe? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list