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On Mon, 24 Sep 2012 14:59:47 -0700 (PDT), MrsEntity
<junkshops@gmail.com> declaimed the following in
gmane.comp.python.general:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm working on some code that parses a 500kb, 2M line file line by line and saves, per line, some derived strings

	Pardon? A 2million line file will contain, at the minimum 2million
line-end characters. That four times 500kB just in the line-ends,
ignoring any data.
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