Re: execfile eats memory

2005-09-19 Thread jepler
I generated a ~22-megabyte file with this small Python program: print "[" for i in xrange(200): print "'" + str(i) + "', " print "]" As the original poster suggested, Python uses at least several hundreds of megabytes when execfile()ing that source. I had t

Re: execfile eats memory

2005-09-19 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Enrique Palomo Jiménez wrote: > The information will be used no more than 3-4 days a > month and install databases is not allowed. > [...] > Someone suggest me the pickle module. I'll try it and it > works, but pickle dumps is slower than writing the file > with pythonic syntax. (26 seconds vs 6)

execfile eats memory

2005-09-19 Thread Enrique Palomo Jiménez
On friday i wrote a this message: [...] I'm writing an application who needs to handle a lot of information of several files. So, i think the better way is design a batch process to catch that information in a dictionary and write it in a file. So, after that when a user wants to retrieve somethi