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Re: How to read from a file to an arbitrary delimiter efficiently?

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Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> writes:
>     while b:
>         buffer.append(b)

This looks bad because of the overhead of list elements, and also the
reading of 1 char at a time.  If it's bytes that you're reading, try
using bytearray instead of list:

    def chunkiter(f,delim):
        buf = bytearray()
        bufappend = buf.append   # avoid an attribute lookup when calling
        fread = f.read    # similar
        while True:
            c = fread(1)
            bufappend(c)
            if c in delim:
                yield str(buf)
                del buf[:]

If that's still not fast enough, you could do a more hacky thing of
reading large chunks of input at once (f.read(4096) or whatever),
splitting on the delimiter set with re.split, and yielding the split
output, refilling the buffer when you don't find more delimiters.  That
doesn't tell you what delimiters actually match: do you need that?
Maybe there is nicer a way to get at it than adding up the lengths of
the chunks to index into the buffer.  How large do you expect the chunks
to be?

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How to read from a file to an arbitrary delimiter efficiently? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2016-02-25 17:50 +1100
  Re: How to read from a file to an arbitrary delimiter efficiently? Wolfgang Maier <wolfgang.maier@biologie.uni-freiburg.de> - 2016-02-25 08:37 +0100
    Re: How to read from a file to an arbitrary delimiter efficiently? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-02-27 21:40 +1100
      Re: How to read from a file to an arbitrary delimiter efficiently? Dan Sommers <dan@tombstonezero.net> - 2016-02-27 14:40 +0000
      Re: How to read from a file to an arbitrary delimiter efficiently? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-02-27 12:03 -0500
        Re: How to read from a file to an arbitrary delimiter efficiently? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-02-27 19:47 +0200
  Re: How to read from a file to an arbitrary delimiter efficiently? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-02-25 18:30 +1100
    Re: How to read from a file to an arbitrary delimiter efficiently? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-02-27 20:49 +1100
      Re: How to read from a file to an arbitrary delimiter efficiently? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-02-27 23:17 +1100
      Re: How to read from a file to an arbitrary delimiter efficiently? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-02-27 23:18 +1100
      Re: How to read from a file to an arbitrary delimiter efficiently? Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> - 2016-02-27 17:23 +0200
  Re: How to read from a file to an arbitrary delimiter efficiently? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-02-24 23:48 -0800
    Re: How to read from a file to an arbitrary delimiter efficiently? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2016-02-25 06:37 -0800
    Re: How to read from a file to an arbitrary delimiter efficiently? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2016-02-25 06:38 -0800
  Re: How to read from a file to an arbitrary delimiter efficiently? BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-02-27 16:35 +0000
    Re: How to read from a file to an arbitrary delimiter efficiently? BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-02-27 20:03 +0000
      Re: How to read from a file to an arbitrary delimiter efficiently? BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-02-27 20:28 +0000
  Re: How to read from a file to an arbitrary delimiter efficiently? Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2016-02-28 20:28 +0000
  Re: How to read from a file to an arbitrary delimiter efficiently? Tim Delaney <timothy.c.delaney@gmail.com> - 2016-02-29 08:00 +1100

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