On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 15:49:35 +0100, Heiko Wundram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Problem being: if the file the OP is talking about really is 80GB in size, and > you consider a sentence to have 80 bytes on average (it's likely to have less > than that), that makes 10^9 sentences in the file. Now, multiply that with > the memory overhead of storing a list of 10^9 None(s), and reconsider, > whether that algorithm really works for the posted conditions. I don't think > that any machine I have access to even has near enough memory just to store > this list... ;)
Ah, but that's the clever bit; it *doesn't* store the whole list - only the selected lines. -- Cheers, Simon B, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
