On Dec 6, 2:01 pm, Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 6, 9:30 am, Aaron Watters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > See recipes: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/491285 http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/305269
I previously noted in that I found the first recipe slow and obscure. Raymond pointed out privately that it is designed to minimize memory requirements when merging possibly many files from a filesystem. It does that very well, and I apologize for the offensive tone of my comment. -- Aaron Watters === http://www.xfeedme.com/nucular/pydistro.py/go?FREETEXT=cryptic+code+performance+hacks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list