Stephan Deibel wrote: > BTW, I can't resist my own favorite speed anecdote: I once wrote a > one-off script to process down a couple of gigabytes of variously > fragmented web logs into month-by-month files. I thought I was being > naive doing f.readline() in a for loop with some date parsing code for > each entry. But I was completely astounded how fast it processed -- and > it just worked the first time around.
I was doing the same thing today (well, processing system logs, not web logs) and was completely baffled when I found that a program that just worked the first time around on our development machine, crashed with a MemoryError on the production machine. oh well. </F> _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
