On Aug 27, 12:43 am, mcl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> All,
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> Thank you very much.
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> As my background is much smaller memory machines than today's giants -
> 64k being abigmachine and 640k being gigantic. I get very worried
> about crashing machines when copying or editingbigfiles, especially
>
On 26 Aug, 15:45, vasudevram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Aug 26, 6:48 am, Paul McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > On Aug 25, 8:15 pm, Paul McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > > On Aug 25, 4:57 am,mosscliffe<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > > > I have 4 text files each approx 50mb.
On Aug 26, 6:48 am, Paul McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Aug 25, 8:15 pm, Paul McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > On Aug 25, 4:57 am, mosscliffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > > I have 4 text files each approx 50mb.
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> > 50mb? Really? Did you actually try this and find out it
On Aug 25, 8:15 pm, Paul McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Aug 25, 4:57 am, mosscliffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > I have 4 text files each approx 50mb.
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> 50mb? Really? Did you actually try this and find out it was a
> problem?
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> Try this:
> import time
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> start = time.clock()
> o
On Aug 25, 4:57 am, mosscliffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have 4 text files each approx 50mb.
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50mb? Really? Did you actually try this and find out it was a
problem?
Try this:
import time
start = time.clock()
outname = "temp.dat"
outfile = file(outname,"w")
for inname in ['file1.dat', 'fi
On Aug 25, 4:57 am, mosscliffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have 4 text files each approx 50mb.
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> I need to join these into one large text file.
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> I only need to do this very occasionally, as the problem has occurred
> because of upload limitations.
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> Bearing in mind filesize and memory use
On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 02:57:24 -0700, mosscliffe wrote:
> I have 4 text files each approx 50mb.
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> I need to join these into one large text file.
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> I only need to do this very occasionally, as the problem has occurred
> because of upload limitations.
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> Bearing in mind filesize and memory use
I have 4 text files each approx 50mb.
I need to join these into one large text file.
I only need to do this very occasionally, as the problem has occurred
because of upload limitations.
Bearing in mind filesize and memory useage, would I be better reading
every line in every file and writing eac
