On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 14:26 -0400, Cameron Pulsford wrote: > This is only supposed to handle text files, so when would reading it > all into memory become too much for most computers? I'm guessing there > aren't many source files of too great a size.
I often use python with server log files - 1Tb of plain-text wouldn't seem too much to me, but it wouldn't fit into ram on many computers ;-) For source files I wouldn't think it would be a problem - but I agree with Jean-Michel, I can imagine running an app like yours over hundreds of source files at once. It wouldn't be nice if I decided to kill the program half way through and found it had died half way through processing a file and lost my code! Tim Wintle -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
