A python package that can fast random access any lines in a large file without high memory cost.
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LineCache caches the line position of a file in the memory. Everytime it access a line, it will seek to the related postion and readline(). Noticing that it may cost some time when you first cache lines of a file.
- Usage:
linecache = LineCache(‘a.txt’, cache_suffix=’.cache’) num_lines = len(linecache) line_0 = linecache[0] line_100 = linecache[100]
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