Python open files limit

Franck Dernoncourt Franck Dernoncourt I noticed I don't have to be root to run setrlimit in Ubuntu. Lott S. Lott k 75 75 gold badges silver badges bronze badges.

Whether this is a bad idea or not depends on what you're doing. Even Guido himself uses this strategy of holding onto open files in a particular sorting algorithm: neopythonic. Lott: Can you explain why you think fps. The append is needed so the garbage collector does not clean up and close the files.

Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. The Overflow Blog. Podcast Helping communities build their own LTE networks. The open function takes two parameters; filename , and mode. Opens a file for reading, error if the file does not exist. Because "r" for read, and "t" for text are the default values, you do not need to specify them.

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Learn more. Asked 7 years, 1 month ago. Active 4 years, 11 months ago. Viewed 7k times. Improve this question. As far as I know, there isn't any fixed maximum. Whatever is going wrong, this probably isn't the cause. What problem are you facing? It doesn't sound as though you have come up with the right solution. As a test, I just loaded a MB file into a string. It took only a few seconds. I then wrote it back out to a file. That took a little longer.

I then hashed the file. The two are identical. Python has no problems with large strings, until you hit the limit of your RAM, operating system, or processor. You say you "went through and loaded the file into a string" -- that sounds like the first place you could have made a mistake.

To load a file into a string, you just do fileobject. If you did it some other way, that could be the problem. How are we doing? Please help us improve Stack Overflow. Take our short survey. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams?

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