> This is continuation to my previous email with > sugject line "Python regular expression". My text > file although, looks like .ini file, but it is not. It > is a chip definition file from Gene chip. it is a > huge file with over 340,000 lines.
Thats big but by no means outragous, I have processed files with over 1 millionlines before. And they were much more complex format too - over 10 fields in a pseudo CSV format. It took a few minutes but not not hours. Try it, if there's a real problem think about fixing it. But it may just work... On a modern PC you will probably even have enough RAM to get it all into memory - less than 30M I'd guess! Alan G. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor