Re: [python-win32] FIle I/O on Windows XP

2009-06-15 Thread python
Hi Tony, > I was trying to see if I could speed up processing huge files (in the 10's of > Gigabytes) by passing various values to the readline() method of the file > object. We also work with large sized text files (we use Python for ETL jobs in the 100-200 Gb range) and have noticed similar b

Re: [python-win32] FIle I/O on Windows XP

2009-06-15 Thread Dave Angel
Tony Cappellini wrote: I was trying to see if I could speed up processing huge files (in the 10's of Gigabytes) by passing various values to the readline() method of the file object. No matter what I passed to readline() each call was slower and slower than passing no argument at all. I've use

[python-win32] FIle I/O on Windows XP

2009-06-14 Thread Tony Cappellini
I was trying to see if I could speed up processing huge files (in the 10's of Gigabytes) by passing various values to the readline() method of the file object. No matter what I passed to readline() each call was slower and slower than passing no argument at all. I've used a SATA bus analyzer to s