How much memory used by a name

[Bart Ogryczak]

On Feb 14, 9:41 pm, "Bernard Lebel" <3dbern... at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is taking a long time, and I'm looking for ways to speed up this
> process. I though that keeping the list in memory and dropping to the
> file at the very end could be a possible approach.

It seems, that you're trying to reinvent wheel. Why don't you just use
g'old mmap()?
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-mmap.html