Not Responding When Dealing with Large Data

[MRAB]

On 2014-06-19 09:17, cutey Love wrote:
> update_idletasks didn't work.
>
> The code is this
>
>      file_path = filedialog.askopenfilename(filetypes=[('text files', '.txt')], multiple=True, defaultextension=".txt")
>
>      for path in file_path:
>
>          fo = open(path, "r")
>
>          for line in fo:
>              if myCase(line.lower()):
>                  myList.append(line.lower())
>          fo.close()
>
>
> def myCase(c):
>
>          if c in myList:
>              return False
>
>          if len(c) < 8 or len(c) > 80:
>              return False
>
> return True
>
>
>
> This processes a fair bit of data
>
It's quicker to look for something in a set than in a list, so if you
can use a set instead of a list, do so.

Also, checking the length of a string is quick, quicker than searching
a list.

Therefore, before processing the file, do:

     mySet = set(myList)

and then you can say:

     def myCase(c):
         if len(c) < 8 or len(c) > 80:
             return False

         if c in mySet:
             return False

         return True

which can be shortened to:

     def myCase(c):
         return 8 <= len(c) <= 80 and c in mySet