[Tutor] extracting lines in large file

[Alan Gauld]

"Bryan Fodness" <bryan.fodness at gmail.com> wrote 

>I am trying to output all the lines that start with a specific word.
> It is a large output file (~14 Mb), but nothing that I thought would
> be a problem.

Shouldn't be, you are processing one line at a time!

> for line in open('output.new'):
>    i_line = line.split()
>    if i_line:
>        if i_line[0] == "intrinsic":
>            print i_line
> 
> It does not get all of the lines, it stops at line 130323.  There are

Sounds like it has an EOF character in it, try opening in binary 
mode and see what happens... It could cause other problems 
if there really is binary data in there but it might just work...

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