Grant Edwards <inva...@invalid> wrote: >On 2009-01-09, Johannes Bauer <dfnsonfsdu...@gmx.de> wrote: >> I've come from C/C++ and am now trying to code some Python because I >> absolutely love the language. However I still have trouble getting >> Python code to run efficiently. Right now I have a easy task: Get a >> file, >If I were you, I'd try mmap()ing the file instead of reading it >into string objects one chunk at a time.
You've snipped the bit further on in that sentence where the OP says that the file of interest is 2GB. Do you still want to try mmap'ing it? -- \S -- si...@chiark.greenend.org.uk -- http://www.chaos.org.uk/~sion/ "Frankly I have no feelings towards penguins one way or the other" -- Arthur C. Clarke her nu becomeþ se bera eadward ofdun hlæddre heafdes bæce bump bump bump
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