En Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:50:17 -0200, Paul Rubin <"http://phr.cx"@NOSPAM.invalid> escribi�:
> Nicko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> # The next line is order O(n) in the number of chunks >> (line, fileindex) = min(mergechunks) > > You should use the heapq module to make this operation O(log n) instead. Or forget about Python and use the Windows sort command. It has been there since MS-DOS ages, there is no need to download and install other packages, and the documentation at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb491004.aspx says: Limits on file size: The sort command has no limit on file size. Better, since the OP only intents to extract lines starting with "zz", use the findstr command: findstr /l /b "zz" filename.exe would do the job. Why doing things more complicated than that? -- Gabriel Genellina -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
