what happens when the file begin read is too big for all lines to be read with "readlines()"

[MrJean1]

Just try it, it is not that hard ... ;-)

/Jean Brouwers

PS) Here is what happens on Linux:

  $ limit vmemory 10000
  $ python
  ...
  >>> s = file(<bugfile>).readlines()
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "<stdin>", line 1 in ?
  MemoryError
  >>>