David M. Beazley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment:
I've done some profiling and the performance of reading line-by-line is
considerably worse in Python 3 than in Python 2. For example, this
code:
for line in open("somefile.txt"):
pass
Ran 35 times slower in Python 3.0 than Python 2.6 when I tested it on a
big text file (100 Megabytes). If you disable Unicode by opening the
file in binary mode, it runs even slower.
This slowdown is really unacceptable for anyone who uses Python for
parsing big non-Unicode text files (and I would claim that there are
many such people).
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nosy: +beazley
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