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Python - Processing Large Text Files One Line At A Time

to python cookbook readline by hostmaster on Nov 09, 2007
// process some very large text files one line at a time

fh = open('foo.txt', 'r')
line = fh.readline()
while line:
    # do something here
    line = fh.readline()


// Update

for line in open('foo.txt', 'r'):
    # do something here
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