how to count lines in a file ?

[Shagshag13]

here is a test in counting [6871785] lines from a file of > 1Go

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the code i post

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the code i post without "wc popen" lines

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lineCount = 0
fhi = file(filename)
for line in xreadlines.xreadlines(fhi):
 lineCount += 1

return lineCount

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lines = 0:
for line in file(filename):
     lines += 1

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lineCount = 0
fp = open(filename)
it = iter(fp)
try:
 while it.next():
  lineCount += 1
except StopIteration:
 pass

return lineCount

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all comments are welcome !!!

thanks,

s13.