Does the Python “open” function save its content in memory or in a temp file?

Question

For the following Python code:

fp = open(\'output.txt\', \'wb\')
# Very big file, writes a lot of lines, n is a very large number
for i in range(1, n):
    f         


        

Answer 1

Building on ataylor's comment to the question:

You might want to nest your loop. Something like

for i in range(1,n):
    for each in range n:
        fp.write('something')
fp.close()

That way, the only thing that gets put into memory is the string "something", not "something" * n.