New submission from Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes: When reading large files with fileinput, it will work as expected and only process a line at a time when used normally, but if you add an hook_encoded openhook it will read the whole file into memory before returning the first line.
Verify by running this program on a large text file: import fileinput for l in fileinput.input(openhook=fileinput.hook_encoded('iso-8859-1')): raw_input() and check how much memory it uses. Remove the openhook and memory usage goes down to nothing. ---------- components: IO messages: 210130 nosy: gromgull priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: fileinput module will read whole file into memory when using fileinput.hook_encoded type: behavior versions: Python 2.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue20501> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com