[Tutor] extracting lines in large file

[Bryan Fodness]

tried both again, they both return the same 9 lines, when i expect
492.  it dies on a blank line, but the if i_line takes care of the
previous ones.

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 4:21 PM, vince spicer<vinces1979 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 14mb file shouldn't be an issue, unless you very little ram, is there any
> errors being outputted?
>
> a cleaner way for reading the file:
>
> for line in open("output.new"):
>     if line.startswith("intrinsic"):
>         print line
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Bryan Fodness <bryan.fodness at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I am trying to output all the lines that start with a specific word.
>> It is a large output file (~14 Mb), but nothing that I thought would
>> be a problem.
>>
>> for line in open('output.new'):
>>    i_line = line.split()
>>    if i_line:
>>        if i_line[0] == "intrinsic":
>>            print i_line
>>
>> It does not get all of the lines, it stops at line 130323.  There are
>> ~260000 line.  Is there a limit to the number of lines you can read in
>> this way, or am I overlooking something else.
>>
>> Bryan
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