Em Sex, 2006-04-14 às 13:45 +0800, Rajesh Sathyamoorthy escreveu: > I wanted to know why it is more efficient to read a file in smaller > chunks ( using file() or open() )?
It's more efficient in some cases, and worse on others. It also depends on how you implement the read loop. I won't elaborate too much here, there are loads of sites and books that talk about this topic. > If this is not done, will this lead to errors in the data read or just > results in slower performance? It doesn't corrupt anything, unless you have a buggy hardware. -- Felipe. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list