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Help optimize a script?

Markus Schaber use-net at schabi.de
Wed Oct 17 18:13:07 EDT 2001 
Hi,

there already were good suggestions, but I have another to add:

On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 10:51:51 -0700, Joseph Santaniello
<someone at _no-spam_arbitrary.org> wrote:

> # while is used cuz line in readlines() used too much ram with
> # huge files.

ind = indecies[sys.argv[1]]

> while 1:
>         line = sys.stdin.readline()
>         if not line:
>                 break
>         new = ''
>         start = 0

          for index in ind:

>                 new = new + string.strip(line[start:start +
>                 index])+'\t' start = start + index
>         print new

This pulls the double indexing and lookup of three names into the lookup of one name for every line. Only a small improvement, but it should be measurable :-)

markus

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