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

def removeLine(filename, lineno):
    in = open(filename)
    out = open(filename + ".new", "w")
    for i, l in enumerate(in, 1):
        if i != lineno:
            out.write(l)
    in.close()
    out.close()
    os.rename(filename + ".new", filename)