Frank Millman wrote: > It is certainly possible to store the entire report in memory, using a > two-dimensional list (page/line), but if a report runs into hundreds of > pages, I am concerned at the amount of memory this would require. > Perhaps I am being old-fashioned - with todays memory of at least 64k, > it would probably fit without a problem - but I would prefer to write > the pages away and read them back when needed.
Modern operating systems have a technique for dealing with this. It is called virtual memory. You are only using up more memory, CPU, and disk speed by using temporary files unnecessarily. -- Michael Hoffman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list