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Re: How pickle helps in reading huge files?

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On 16/10/2013 07:55, Harsh Jha wrote:
> I've a huge csv file and I want to read stuff from it again and again. Is it useful to pickle it and keep and then unpickle it whenever I need to use that data? Is it faster that accessing that file simply by opening it again and again? Please explain, why?
>
> Thank you.
>

What's your definition of huge?  Maybe it would be effective to pickle 
and unpickle but until you try it, perhaps with a relatively small data 
sample, how can you know?  Why can't you leave the file open and keep 
iterating over the contents?

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How pickle helps in reading huge files? Harsh Jha <harshjha2006@gmail.com> - 2013-10-15 23:55 -0700
  Re: How pickle helps in reading huge files? Stephane Wirtel <stephane@wirtel.be> - 2013-10-16 09:05 +0200
    Re: How pickle helps in reading huge files? rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-10-16 01:51 -0700
      Re: How pickle helps in reading huge files? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-10-16 20:09 +1100
  Re: How pickle helps in reading huge files? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-10-16 08:39 +0100
  Re: How pickle helps in reading huge files? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-10-16 08:29 -0400
  Re: How pickle helps in reading huge files? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-10-16 13:32 -0400
  Re: How pickle helps in reading huge files? Peter Cacioppi <peter.cacioppi@gmail.com> - 2013-10-16 14:04 -0700
    Re: How pickle helps in reading huge files? Irmen de Jong <irmen.NOSPAM@xs4all.nl> - 2013-10-16 23:09 +0200

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