.readline() -SOLVED: PYTHON FASTER THAN PERL !

[Harald Schneider]

FANTASTIC !
1.52 sec. with your code (PERL was: 3.705)

You gave me the reason to dig more into Python :) Thanks a lot!

All the best,
Harald

"Alex Martelli" <aleaxit at yahoo.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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>     [snip]
> > #!/usr/bin/perl
>     [snip]
> > Result of upper Script: 3.705 sec
>     [snip]
> > while 1:
> >     lines = db.readlines(250000)
> >     if not lines:
> >         break
> >     for dbline in lines:
> >    rs = string.split(dbline, ';')
> >
> >    if rs[0] == 'TEST':
> >     print dbline + "\n"
> >     break
>     [snip]
> > Result of upper Script: 5.629 sec.
>
> I wonder if a tad extra performance might not be obtained
> in the Python version by a slightly more Pythonic idiom in
> the inner loop, e.g. (in Python 2.0):
>
>     proceed = 1
>     while proceed:
>         lines = db.readlines(250000)
>         if not lines: break
>         for dbline in lines:
>             if dbline.startswith('TEST'):
>                 print dbline,'\n'
>                 proceed = 0
>                 break
>
> (this also has the same semantics as the Perl script,
> which, it seems to me, your original Python version does
> not, since the 'break' only breaks from one level of
> loop; I inserted the 'proceed' switch as one way to
> ensure termination of the outer-loop as well).
>
>
> Alex
>
>
>