On 09/24/12 23:41, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Mon, 24 Sep 2012 14:59:47 -0700 (PDT), MrsEntity > <junksh...@gmail.com> declaimed the following in > gmane.comp.python.general: > >> Hi all, >> >> I'm working on some code that parses a 500kb, 2M line file line by line and >> saves, per line, some derived strings > > Pardon? A 2million line file will contain, at the minimum 2million > line-end characters. That four times 500kB just in the line-ends, > ignoring any data.
As corrected later in the thread, MrsEntity writes """ I have, in fact, this very afternoon, invented a means of writing a carriage return character using only 2 bits of information. I am prepared to sell licenses to this revolutionary technology for the low price of $29.95 plus tax. Sorry, that should've been a 500Mb, 2M line file. """ If only other unnamed persons on the list were so gracious rather than turning the flame-dial to 11. I hope that when people come to the list, *this* is what they see, laugh, and want to participate. Although, MrsEntity could be zombie David A. Huffman, whose encoding scheme actually *can* store 2M lines in 500kb :-) -tkc -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list