How can I read large text files in Python, line by line, without loading it into memory?

Question

I need to read a large file, line by line. Lets say that file has more than 5GB and I need to read each line, but obviously I do not want to use readlines() bec

Answer 1

Here's what you do if you dont have newlines in the file:

with open('large_text.txt') as f:
  while True:
    c = f.read(1024)
    if not c:
      break
    print(c)