Glenn Hutchings wrote:
Have you checked memory usage while your program is running? Yourlines = f.readlines()[2:] statement will need almost twice the memory of your largest file.
footnote: list objects contain references to string objects, not the strings themselves. the above temporarily creates two list objects, but the actual file content is only stored once.
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