Python: How to read huge text file into memory

Question

I\'m using Python 2.6 on a Mac Mini with 1GB RAM. I want to read in a huge text file

$ ls -l links.csv; file links.csv; tail links.csv 
-rw-r--r--  1 user  u         


        

Answer 1

I created a module for this use case using external merge sort: https://bitbucket.org/richardpenman/csvsort

>>> from csvsort import csvsort
>>> csvsort('links.csv', columns=[1], has_header=False)