first, second, etc line of text file

[Bjoern Schliessmann]

Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2007-07-25, Jeff McNeil <jeff at jmcneil.net> wrote:
 
>> Depending on the size of your file, you can just use
>> file.readlines. Note that file.readlines is going to read the
>> entire file into memory, so don't use it on your plain-text
>> version of War and Peace.
> 
> I don't think that would actually be a problem for any recent
> machine.
> 
> The Project Gutenberg version of W&P is 3.1MB of text in 67403
> lines.  I just did an f.readlines() on it and it was pretty
> much instantaneous, and the python interpreter instance that
> contains that list of 67403 lines is using a bit less than 8MB
> of RAM. 

YMMD :)

Regards,


Björn

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