On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:14:45 -0700 (PDT), Uwe Schmitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I had a look at tarfile.py in my current Python 2.5 installations >lib path. The iterator caches TarInfo objects in a list >tf.members . If you only want to iterate and you are not interested >in more functionallity, you could use "tf.members=[]" inside >your loop. This is a dirty hack ! Thanks, Uwe. That works fine for me. It now reads through all 2.5 million members, in about 30 minutes, never going above a 4M working set. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list