.readline() - VERY SLOW compared to PERL

[Harald Schneider]

Thanks or your reply. .readlines() won't fit, since the data is VERY huge.
So .readline() is a must.

The link on parmassus is definitive dead .... :-/

Harald


> So, why not try using the simpler 'for line in f.readlines()'
> approach and see what that does to your performance.
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> > There exists a module called QIO. Anyone head of it?
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> Yes, but the link on Parnassus for it,
>     http://members.xoom.com/meowing/python/
> would appear to be dead.  Does anybody know of a
> live URL...?
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> Alex
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