A question about yield

[Simon Brunning]

On 7 November 2010 18:14, Chris Rebert <clp2 at rebertia.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 9:56 AM, chad <cdalten at gmail.com> wrote:
>> But what happens if the input file is say 250MB? Will all 250MB be
>> loaded into memory at once?
>
> No. As I said, the file will be read from 1 line at a time, on an
> as-needed basis; which is to say, "line-by-line".

IIRC, it's somewhere in between. Python will read the file in blocks.
If only *looks* like it's reading the file line by line.

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Cheers,
Simon B.