Lazy Method for Reading Big File in Python?

Question

I have a very big file 4GB and when I try to read it my computer hangs. So I want to read it piece by piece and after processing each piece store the processed piece into an

Answer 1

To process line by line, this is an elegant solution:

  def stream_lines(file_name):
    file = open(file_name)
    while True:
      line = file.readline()
      if not line:
        file.close()
        break
      yield line

As long as there're no blank lines.