Re: Memory error due to big input file

2009-07-13 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:20:13 -0700, Aaron Scott wrote: >> BTW, you should derive all your classes from something.  If nothing >> else, use object. >>   class textfile(object): > > Just out of curiousity... why is that? I've been coding in Python for a > long time, and I never derive my base class

Re: Memory error due to big input file

2009-07-13 Thread Chris Rebert
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Vilya Harvey wrote: > 2009/7/13 Aaron Scott : >>> BTW, you should derive all your classes from something.  If nothing >>> else, use object. >>>   class textfile(object): >> >> Just out of curiousity... why is that? I've been coding in Python for >> a long time, and

Re: Memory error due to big input file

2009-07-13 Thread Vilya Harvey
2009/7/13 Aaron Scott : >> BTW, you should derive all your classes from something.  If nothing >> else, use object. >>   class textfile(object): > > Just out of curiousity... why is that? I've been coding in Python for > a long time, and I never derive my base classes. What's the advantage > to der

Re: Memory error due to big input file

2009-07-13 Thread Aaron Scott
> BTW, you should derive all your classes from something.  If nothing > else, use object. >   class textfile(object): Just out of curiousity... why is that? I've been coding in Python for a long time, and I never derive my base classes. What's the advantage to deriving them? -- http://mail.python

Re: Memory error due to big input file

2009-07-13 Thread Dave Angel
sityee kong wrote: Hi All, I have a similar problem that many new python users might encounter. I would really appreciate if you could help me fix the error. I have a big text file with size more than 2GB. It turned out memory error when reading in this file. Here is my python script, the error

Re: Memory error due to big input file

2009-07-13 Thread skip
phoebe> I have a big text file with size more than 2GB. It turned out phoebe> memory error when reading in this file. Here is my python phoebe> script, the error occurred at line -- self.fh.readlines(). phoebe> import math phoebe> import time phoebe> class textfile: p

Re: Memory error due to big input file

2009-07-13 Thread MRAB
sityee kong wrote: Hi All, I have a similar problem that many new python users might encounter. I would really appreciate if you could help me fix the error. I have a big text file with size more than 2GB. It turned out memory error when reading in this file. Here is my python script, the erro