On Feb 1, 5:26 pm, Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> wrote: > 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
actually, I just use file.read(length) way, i just want to know what exactly para of length I should set, I'm afraid length doesn't equal to the amount of physical memory after trials... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
