How pickle helps in reading huge files?

[Mark Lawrence]

On 16/10/2013 07:55, Harsh Jha wrote:
> I've a huge csv file and I want to read stuff from it again and again. Is it useful to pickle it and keep and then unpickle it whenever I need to use that data? Is it faster that accessing that file simply by opening it again and again? Please explain, why?
>
> Thank you.
>

What's your definition of huge?  Maybe it would be effective to pickle 
and unpickle but until you try it, perhaps with a relatively small data 
sample, how can you know?  Why can't you leave the file open and keep 
iterating over the contents?

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Mark Lawrence