I need to read a large file, line by line. Lets say that file has more than 5GB and I need to read each line, but obviously I do not want to use readlines() because it will create a very large list in the memory.
Apparently xrange is faster but I have no idea why it’s faster (and no proof besides the anecdotal so far that it is faster) or what besides that is different about
When I type small integers with a 0 in front into python, they give weird results. Why is this?
first line second line
Are there any applicable differences between dict.items() and dict.iteritems()?
I’m using Python 2 to parse JSON from ASCII encoded text files.
In Python 2.7, I could get dictionary keys, values, or items as a list:
I had two versions of Python installed on my machine (versions 2.6 and 2.5). I want to run 2.6 for one project and 2.5 for another.
I’m trying to compile my code into a Python 3 module. It runs fine when I choose “Run module” in IDLE, but receive the following syntax error when I try to create a distribution: