[Tutor] raw_input()

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:27:13 am you wrote:

> I think he thinks that python is going to read the whole 3.6GB of
> data into memory in one hit, rather than using a small amount of
> memory to process it line by line. But "for line in datafile" in your
> code above uses a generator, right? So I don't think it's a problem -
> correct me if I'm wrong.

No, you are correct -- "for line in file" reads one line at a time.

Beware, though, if the file isn't line-oriented, then each "line" 
(separated with a newline character) could be huge.



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Steven D'Aprano