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

you can use following code.

file_obj = open('big_file') 

open() returns a file object

then use os.stat for getting size

file_size = os.stat('big_file').st_size

for i in range( file_size/1024):
    print file_obj.read(1024)