Newbie completely confused

[Roel Schroeven]

Roel Schroeven schreef:
> import time
> 
> input_files = ["./test_file0.txt", "./test_file1.txt"]
> 
> total_start = time.time()
> data = {}
> for input_fn in input_files:
>      file_start = time.time()
>      f = file(input_fn, 'r')
>      data[input_fn] = f.read()
>      f.close()
>      file_done = time.time()
>      print '%s: %f to read %d bytes' % (input_fn, file_done - 
> file_start, len(data))

... that should of course be len(data[input_fn]) ...

> total_done = time.time()
> print 'all done in %f' % (total_done - total_start)
> 
> 
> When I run that with test_file0.txt and test_file1.txt as you described 
> (each 30 MB), I get this output:
> 
> ./test_file0.txt: 0.260000 to read 1 bytes
> ./test_file1.txt: 0.251000 to read 2 bytes
> all done in 0.521000

... and then that becomes:

./test_file0.txt: 0.290000 to read 33170000 bytes
./test_file1.txt: 0.231000 to read 33170000 bytes
all done in 0.521000


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Roel Schroeven