I'm running into a problem that I haven't seen anyone on StackOverflow encounter or even google for that matter.
My main goal is to be able to replace occurences of a string in the file with another string. Is there a way there a way to be able to acess all of the lines in the file.
The problem is that when I try to read in a large text file (1-2 gb) of text, python only reads a subset of it.
For example, I'll do a really simply command such as:
newfile = open("newfile.txt","w")
f = open("filename.txt","r")
for line in f:
replaced = line.replace("string1", "string2")
newfile.write(replaced)
And it only writes the first 382 mb of the original file. Has anyone encountered this problem previously?
I tried a few different solutions such as using:
import fileinput
for i, line in enumerate(fileinput.input("filename.txt", inplace=1)
sys.stdout.write(line.replace("string1", "string2")
But it has the same effect. Nor does reading the file in chunks such as using
f.read(10000)
I've narrowed it down to mostly likely being a reading in problem and not a writing problem because it happens for simply printing out lines. I know that there are more lines. When I open it in a full text editor such as Vim, I can see what the last line should be, and it is not the last line that python prints.
Can anyone offer any advice or things to try?
I'm currently using a 32-bit version of Windows XP with 3.25 gb of ram, and running Python 2.7