Paul Rubin wrote:
"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).
I remember when it was the other way round ;-)
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/fe217ae9723f7a38/23477243324bebc6?q=python+file+IO+speed#23477243324bebc6
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