Le Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:18:17 +0000, djc a écrit : > > changing > with open(filename, 'rU') as tabfile: to > with codecs.open(filename, 'rU', 'utf-8', 'backslashreplace') as > tabfile: > > and > with open(outfile, 'wt') as out_part: to > with codecs.open(outfile, 'w', 'utf-8') as out_part: > > causes a program that runs in > 43 seconds to take 4 minutes to process the same data.
codecs.open() (and the object it returns) is slow as it is written in pure Python. Accelerated reading and writing of unicode files is available in Python 2.7 and 3.1, using the new `io` module. Regards Antoine. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
