Memory error due to the huge input file size

file, python

Solution

Obviously the file is too large to be read into memory all at once.

Why not just use:

with open("data.txt") as myfile:
    for line in myfile:
        do_something(line.rstrip("\n"))

or, if you're not on Python 2.6 and higher:

myfile = open("data.txt")
for line in myfile:
    do_something(line.rstrip("\n"))

In both cases, you'll get an iterator that can be treated much like a list of strings.

EDIT: Since your way of reading the entire file into one large string and then splitting it on newlines will remove the newlines in the process, I have added a `.rstrip("\n")` to my examples in order to better simulate the result.

Problem

When I using the following code to read file: ``` lines=file("data.txt").read().split("\n") ``` I have the following error ``` MemoryError ``` the file size is ``` ls -l -rw-r--r-- 1 charlie charlie 1258467201 Sep 26 12:57 data.txt ```

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