Which piece of code will conserve more memory? I think that code #2 will because I close the file more often, thus freeing more memory by closing it. Am I right in this thinking... or does it not save me any more bytes in memory by closing the file often? Sure I realize that in my example it doesn't save much if it does... but I'm dealing with writing large files.. so every byte freed in memory counts. Thanks.
CODE #1: def getData(): return '12345' #5 bytes f = open('file.ext', 'wb') for i in range(2000): f.write(getData()) f.close() CODE #2: def getData(): return '12345' #5 bytes f = open('file.ext', 'wb') for i in range(2000): f.write(getData()) if i == 5: f.close() f = open('file.ext', 'ab') i = 1 i = i + 1 f.close()
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