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Re: Record seperator

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On 8/27/2011 1:45 PM, Roy Smith wrote:
> In article<4e592852$0$29965$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com>,
>   Steven D'Aprano<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info>  wrote:
>
>> open("file.txt")   # opens the file
>>   .read()           # reads the contents of the file
>>   .split("\n\n")    # splits the text on double-newlines.
>
> The biggest problem with this code is that read() slurps the entire file
> into a string.  That's fine for moderately sized files, but will fail
> (or at least be grossly inefficient) for very large files.

I read the above as separating the file into paragraphs, as indicated by 
blank lines.

def paragraphs(file):
   para = []
   for line in file:
     if line:
       para.append(line)
     else:
       yield para # or ''.join(para), as desired
       para = []

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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Record seperator greymaus <greymausg@mail.com> - 2011-08-26 18:39 +0000
  Re: Record seperator "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy@druid.net> - 2011-08-26 15:02 -0400
    Re: Record seperator greymaus <greymausg@mail.com> - 2011-08-27 16:59 +0000
      Re: Record seperator Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-08-28 03:24 +1000
        Re: Record seperator Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2011-08-27 13:45 -0400
          Re: Record seperator ChasBrown <cbrown@cbrownsystems.com> - 2011-08-27 11:40 -0700
          Re: Record seperator Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-08-27 16:03 -0400
            Re: Record seperator Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2011-08-27 17:07 -0400
              Re: Record seperator Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-08-27 20:55 -0400
          Re: Record seperator Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-08-28 06:07 +1000
        Re: Record seperator greymaus <greymausg@mail.com> - 2011-08-28 10:03 +0000

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