Questions: While And List Comprehension

[Felipe Vinturini]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 6:10 AM, Peter Otten <__peter__ at web.de> wrote:

> James Mills wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:01 AM, alex23 <wuwei23 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> +1 on this approach. Clear and obvious and not reliant on any library
> >> modules other than sys.
> >>
> >> itertools, what WAS I thinking? :)
> >
> > maybe:
> >
> > import sys
> > from itertools import islice
> >
> > print [v for v in islice((line for line in sys.stdin), 0, 5)]
>
> (line for line in sys.stdin)
>
> and sys.stdin are equivalent as are
>
> [v for v in items]
>
> and list(items)
>
> So
>
> print list(islice(sys.stdin, 5))
>
> Peter
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Hello Folks,

You are great! Thanks for the suggestions!

With the values between # #, I meant I would like to limit the values
sys.stdin.readlines() read (but I think there is no way to do it); instead
of reading the entire input, limit it to read only 5 entries.
I knew about readline(), but when checking it with cProfile each readline()
needs a function call and with readlines() it is only one. I think that
depending on input, readline() calls may have a higher cost.

Check below:

My test file: TestFile.txt
=====================================================
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
=====================================================

My test code: simpleReadLines.py
=====================================================
import sys
import cProfile

def simpleTestLimitRLS(tLimit):
    sysStdinReadLines = sys.stdin.readlines
    allValues = [ int(v) for v in sysStdinReadLines() ]
    print allValues[:tLimit]

def simpleTestLimitRL(tLimit):
    sysStdinReadLine = sys.stdin.readline
    print [ sysStdinReadLine() for x in xrange(0,5) ]

if __name__ == '__main__':
    cProfile.run("simpleTestLimitRL(5)")
    cProfile.run("simpleTestLimitRLS(5)")
=====================================================

Test result:
=====================================================
>type TestFile.txt | python simpleReadLines.py
['1\n', '2\n', '3\n', '4\n', '5\n']
         8 function calls in 0.004 CPU seconds

   Ordered by: standard name

   ncalls  tottime  percall  cumtime  percall filename:lineno(function)
        1    0.000    0.000    0.004    0.004 <string>:1(<module>)
        1    0.004    0.004    0.004    0.004
simpleReadLines.py:13(simpleTestLimitRL)
        1    0.000    0.000    0.000    0.000 {method 'disable' of
'_lsprof.Profiler' objects}
        5    0.000    0.000    0.000    0.000 {method 'readline' of 'file'
objects}

[6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
         4 function calls in 0.003 CPU seconds

   Ordered by: standard name

   ncalls  tottime  percall  cumtime  percall filename:lineno(function)
        1    0.000    0.000    0.003    0.003 <string>:1(<module>)
        1    0.003    0.003    0.003    0.003
simpleReadLines.py:8(simpleTestLimitRLS)
        1    0.000    0.000    0.000    0.000 {method 'disable' of
'_lsprof.Profiler' objects}
        1    0.000    0.000    0.000    0.000 {method 'readlines' of 'file'
objects}
=====================================================

If I change the execution order to:
    1. simpleTestLimitRLS(5)
    2. simpleTestLimitRL(5)

Of course, python returns an error because all the input has been consumed
by readlines().

Again, thanks for your attention and suggestions.

Regards,
Felipe.
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