gry <georgeryo...@gmail.com> writes: > sys.version --> '2.6 (r26:66714, Feb 21 2009, 02:16:04) \n[GCC 4.3.2 > [gcc-4_3-branch revision 141291]]
> I thought this script would be very lean and fast, but with a large > value for n (like 150000), it uses 26G of virtural memory, and things > start to crumble. > > #!/usr/bin/env python > '''write a file of random integers. args are: file-name how-many''' > import sys, random > > f = open(sys.argv[1], 'w') > n = int(sys.argv[2]) > for i in xrange(n): > print >>f, random.randint(0, sys.maxint) > f.close() sys.version is '2.6.6 (r266:84292, Sep 15 2010, 16:22:56) \n[GCC 4.4.5]' here, and your script works like a charm. BTW, I would use f.write() instead of print >> f (which I think is deprecated). -- Alain. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
