phoebe> I have a big text file with size more than 2GB. It turned out
phoebe> memory error when reading in this file. Here is my python
phoebe> script, the error occurred at line -- self.fh.readlines().
phoebe> import math
phoebe> import time
phoebe> class textfile:
phoebe> def __init__(self,fname):
phoebe> self.name=fname
phoebe> self.fh=open(fname)
phoebe> self.fh.readline()
phoebe> self.lines=self.fh.readlines()
Don't do that. The problem is that you are trying to read the entire file
into memory. Learn to operate a line (or a few lines) at a time. Try
something like:
a = open("/home/sservice/nfbc/GenoData/CompareCalls3.diff")
for line in a:
do your per-line work here
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