On 23/06/2008, Dinesh B Vadhia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a program with 2 for loops like this (in pseudocode): > > fw = open(newLine.txt, 'w') > for i in xrange(0, 700,000, 1): > read a file fname from folder > for line in open(fname, 'r'): > do some simple string processing on line > fw.write(newline) > fw.close() > > That's it. Very simple but after i reaches about 550,000 the program begins > to crawl. As an example, the loops to 550,000 takes about an hour. From > 550,000 to 580,000 takes an additional 4 hours. > > Any ideas about what could be going on?
What happens if you reverse the loop? i.e. change to: for i in xrange(699999, -1, -1): -- John. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
