Python readlines

JoeUser11 · 03-01-2005, 11:23 PM

Right now I'm working on a python program that solves anagrams. Pretty much I need to compare the number of each letter out of a given word with the number of each letter in every single word in the dictionary. I was using string.readlines(), but the dictionary list I'm using is so big that it is causing problems. I'm pretty much just trying to read in every line of a 2.4 meg text file, but IDLE just freezes when I attempt it. Anybody see any way around this problem?

nulldevice · 03-02-2005, 12:10 AM

use readline instead of readlines. using readlines for files which are larger in size is not a good idea.

coolman0stress · 03-02-2005, 01:52 AM

FYI: In recent Python versions, thanks to iterators, you no longer need to call readline explicitly:

Code:

fp = open(r"file.txt","r")
for line in fp:
   print line

JoeUser11 · 03-02-2005, 06:46 AM

thanks coolman, that worked like a charm.