Fastest Way to Delete a Line from Large File in Python

Question

I am working with a very large (~11GB) text file on a Linux system. I am running it through a program which is checking the file for errors. Once an error is found, I need

Answer 1

As far as I know, you can't just open a txt file with python and remove a line. You have to make a new file and move everything but that line to it. If you know the specific line, then you would do something like this:

f = open('in.txt')
fo = open('out.txt','w')

ind = 1
for line in f:
    if ind != linenumtoremove:
        fo.write(line)
    ind += 1

f.close()
fo.close()

You could of course check the contents of the line instead to determine if you want to keep it or not. I also recommend that if you have a whole list of lines to be removed/changed to do all those changes in one pass through the file.