[Tutor] extracting lines in large file

[Vince Spicer]

are there any extra spaces of characters

" intrinsic" !== "intrinsic"

On Monday 22 June 2009 8:14:00 pm Bryan Fodness wrote:
> tried both again, they both return the same 9 lines, when i expect
> 492.  it dies on a blank line, but the if i_line takes care of the
> previous ones.
>
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 4:21 PM, vince spicer<vinces1979 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 14mb file shouldn't be an issue, unless you very little ram, is there any
> > errors being outputted?
> >
> > a cleaner way for reading the file:
> >
> > for line in open("output.new"):
> >     if line.startswith("intrinsic"):
> >         print line
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 2:16 PM, 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.
> >>
> >> 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
> >> ~260000 line.  Is there a limit to the number of lines you can read in
> >> this way, or am I overlooking something else.
> >>
> >> Bryan
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