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Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 19:19:28 -0400
Subject: Re: Fast forward-backward (write-read)
From: David Hutto <dwightdhutto@gmail.com>
To: Virgil Stokes <vs@it.uu.se>
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Whether this is fast enough, or not, I don't know:


filename = "data_file.txt"
f = open(filename, 'r')
forward =  [line.rstrip('\n') for line in f.readlines()]
backward =  [line.rstrip('\n') for line in reversed(forward)]
f.close()
print forward, "\n\n", "********************\n\n", backward, "\n"


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