Finding size of Variable

[Ayushi Dalmia]

On Tuesday, February 4, 2014 6:23:19 PM UTC+5:30, Asaf Las wrote:
> On Tuesday, February 4, 2014 2:43:21 PM UTC+2, Ayushi Dalmia wrote:
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> > As I said, I need to merge large files and I cannot afford more I/O 
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> > operations. So in order to minimise the I/O operation I am writing in 
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> > chunks. Also, I need to use the merged files as indexes later which 
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> > should be loaded in the memory for fast access. Hence the concern.
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> > Can you please elaborate on the point of taking lines into consideration?
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> have you tried os.sendfile()? 
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> http://docs.python.org/dev/library/os.html#os.sendfile

os.sendfile will not serve my purpose. I not only need to merge files, but do it in a sorted way. Thus some postprocessing is needed.