Reading *.json from URL - json.loads() versus urllib.urlopen.readlines()

[Fábio Santos]

On 27 May 2013 22:36, "Bryan Britten" <britten.bryan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Try to not sigh audibly as I ask what I'm sure are two asinine questions.
>
> 1) How is this approach different from twtrDict = [json.loads(line) for
line in urllib.urlopen(urlStr)]?
>

The suggested approach made use of generators. Just because you can iterate
over something, that doesn't mean it is all in memory ;)

Check out the difference between range() and xrange() in python 2
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