On 15Jun2018 00:24, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info>
wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jun 2018 10:00:59 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
Francois, unless your regex can cross multiple lines it is better to
search files like this:
with open(the_filename) as f:
for line in f:
... search the line for the regexp ...
That way you only need to keep one line at a time in memory.
That's what François is doing.
Urr, so he is. Then like you, I don't know why he's concerned about running out
of memory. Unless it hasn't been made clear the Python will free up unused
memory on its own.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au>
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