"Marc H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm fairly new to python, and don't know much of its inner working so > I wonder if someone could explain to me why it is so much faster in > python to open a file and load it in a list/array ?
My guess is readlines() in Python is separating on newlines while Perl is doing a regexp scan for the RS string (I forget what it's called in Perl). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
