On Wednesday, February 5, 2014 11:15:09 AM UTC+5:30, Rustom Mody wrote:
> On Wednesday, February 5, 2014 11:05:05 AM UTC+5:30, Ayushi Dalmia wrote:
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> > This also doesn't gives the true size. I did the following:
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> > import sys
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> > data=[]
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> > f=open('stopWords.txt','r')
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> > for line in f:
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> > line=line.split()
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> > data.extend(line)
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> > print sys.getsizeof(data)
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> > where stopWords.txt is a file of size 4KB
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> Try getsizeof("".join(data))
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> General advice:
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> - You have been recommended (by Chris??) that you should use a database
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> - You say you cant use a database (for whatever reason)
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> Now the fact is you NEED database (functionality)
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> How to escape this catch-22 situation?
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> In computer science its called somewhat sardonically "Greenspun's 10th rule"
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> And the best way out is to
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> 1 isolate those aspects of database functionality you need
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> 2 temporarily forget about your original problem and implement the dbms
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> (subset of) DBMS functionality you need
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> 3 Use 2 above to implement 1
Hello Rustum,
Thanks for the enlightenment. I did not know about the Greenspun's Tenth rule.
It is interesting to know that. However, it is an academic project and not a
research one. Hence I donot have the liberty to choose what to work with. Life
is easier with databases though, but I am not allowed to use them. Thanks for
the tip. I will try to replicate those functionality.
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