How to do this in Python?

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On Mar 18, 2:00 am, Jim Garrison <j... at acm.org> wrote:

>  I don't want "for line in f:" because binary
> files don't necessarily have lines and I'm bulk processing
> files potentially 100MB and larger.  Reading them one line
> at a time would be highly inefficient.
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For what I know, there are at least two levels of cache between your
application
and the actual file: python interpreter caches its reads, and the
operating system
does that too. So if you are worried about reading efficiently the
file, I think you can stop
worry. Instead, if you are processing files which might not have line
termination at all,
then reading in blocks is the right thing to do.

Ciao
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FB