[perl-python] 20050121 file reading & writing

[Bob Smith]

Xah Lee wrote:

> # reading entire file as a list, of lines
> # mylist = f.readlines()

	
To do this efficiently on a large file (dozens or hundreds of megs), you 
should use the 'sizehint' parameter so as not to use too much memory:

sizehint = 0
mylist = f.readlines(sizehint)