On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 1:17 AM, Stephen.Wu <54wut...@gmail.com> wrote: > tmp=file.read() (very huge file) > if targetStr in tmp: > print "find it" > else: > print "not find" > file.close() > > I checked if file.read() is huge to some extend, it doesn't work, but > could any give me some certain information on this prolbem?
If the file's contents is larger than available memory, you'll get a MemoryError. To avoid this, you can read the file in by chunks (or if applicable, by lines) and see if each chunk/line matches. Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
