Python equivalent of Perl's Input Record Separator ?

[Alex Martelli]

remco boerma wrote:

>> I have a large file with records ending in ox0a 0x0a, the records also
>> contain \n's
> 
> If the file is not to long you could use:
> 
> f  = file('filename')
> sep = chr(0x0a) *2
> records = file.read().split(sep)
> f.close

Error: use f.close()

the trailing parenteses are needed.

> print 'File has', len(records),'records'

Sure, but "large file" normally means one that won't fit comfortably
in memory, and here you'd need it to fit comfortably in HALF of
memory -- that's why I gave a generator-based solution, with low
memory consumption, not tied to the file size but only to the maximum
size of each record.


Alex