On Tuesday, February 4, 2014 2:43:21 PM UTC+2, Ayushi Dalmia wrote: > > As I said, I need to merge large files and I cannot afford more I/O > operations. So in order to minimise the I/O operation I am writing in > chunks. Also, I need to use the merged files as indexes later which > should be loaded in the memory for fast access. Hence the concern. > Can you please elaborate on the point of taking lines into consideration?
have you tried os.sendfile()? http://docs.python.org/dev/library/os.html#os.sendfile -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list