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Re: iterating over a file with two pointers

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Oscar Benjamin wrote:

> $ cat tee.py
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> 
> import sys
> from itertools import tee
> 
> items = iter(range(int(sys.argv[1])))
> 
> while True:
>     for x in items:
>         items, discard = tee(items)
>         break
>     else:
>         break
> 
> print(x)
> 
> $ time py -3.3 ./tee.py 100000000
> 99999999
> 
> real    1m47.711s
> user    0m0.015s
> sys     0m0.000s
> 
> While running the above python.exe was using 6MB of memory (according
> to Task Manager). I believe this is because tee() works as follows
> (which I made up but it's how I imagine it).

[...]

> However, when I ran the above script on Python 2.7 it did consume
> massive amounts of memory (1.6GB) and ran slower so maybe this depends
> on optimisations that were introduced in 3.x.

Did you use xrange()?
 

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iterating over a file with two pointers nikhil Pandey <nikhilpandey90@gmail.com> - 2013-09-18 04:12 -0700
  Re: iterating over a file with two pointers Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-09-18 21:21 +1000
    Re: iterating over a file with two pointers nikhil Pandey <nikhilpandey90@gmail.com> - 2013-09-18 05:07 -0700
      Re: iterating over a file with two pointers Travis Griggs <travisgriggs@gmail.com> - 2013-09-18 09:18 -0700
  Re: iterating over a file with two pointers Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-09-18 11:39 +0000
    Re: iterating over a file with two pointers Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-09-18 08:56 -0400
      Re: iterating over a file with two pointers Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2013-09-18 14:09 +0100
      Re: iterating over a file with two pointers Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-09-18 10:36 -0400
      Re: iterating over a file with two pointers Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-09-18 20:07 +0000
      Re: iterating over a file with two pointers Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-09-19 09:23 +0200
      Re: iterating over a file with two pointers Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2013-09-19 15:16 +0100
      Re: iterating over a file with two pointers Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-09-19 16:38 +0200
      Re: iterating over a file with two pointers Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2013-09-19 15:48 +0100
  Re: iterating over a file with two pointers Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-09-18 13:44 +0200
    Re: iterating over a file with two pointers nikhil Pandey <nikhilpandey90@gmail.com> - 2013-09-18 05:14 -0700
      Re: iterating over a file with two pointers Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-09-18 14:54 +0200
      Re: iterating over a file with two pointers Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-09-19 02:40 +0000
  Re: iterating over a file with two pointers Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-09-19 02:56 +0000
    Re: iterating over a file with two pointers Joshua Landau <joshua@landau.ws> - 2013-09-19 08:04 +0100

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