Steve,
First, many thanks!
Steve Holden wrote:
> Alexis Gallagher wrote:
>>
>> filehandle = open("data",'r',buffering=1000)
>
> This buffer size seems, shall we say, unadventurous? It's likely to slow
> things down considerably, since the filesy
(I tried to post this yesterday but I think my ISP ate it. Apologies if
this is a double-post.)
Is it possible to do very fast string processing in python? My
bioinformatics application needs to scan very large ASCII files (80GB+),
compare adjacent lines, and conditionally do some further proce
