[Zope] Re: Parsing a file through a Python script

Dylan Reinhardt zope at dylanreinhardt.com
Sun Nov 30 11:07:07 EST 2003


On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 07:25, Pierre Godefroy wrote:

> The issue is, I would like to work on a very big file and there may be 
> problems with this. I would like to to access the file as it is already 
> stored in the ZODB.

Well... 

1. Don't serve large stuff from ZODB if you can avoid it.
2. If you want to parse *any* ZODB content, do this:

---

data = getattr(context, my_obj_name)
for line in data.readlines():
    # do stuff

---

HTH,

Dylan




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