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How pickle helps in reading huge csv files?

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I've a huge csv file and I want to read stuff from it again and again. Is it useful to pickle it and keep and then unpickle it whenever I need to use that data? Is it faster that accessing that file simply by opening it again and again? Please explain?

posted Oct 16, 2013 by Sanketi Garg

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Keep it in memory
commented Oct 16, 2013 by anonymous

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What's your definition of huge? Maybe it would be effective to pickle and unpickle but until you try it, perhaps with a relatively small data sample, how can you know? Why can't you leave the file open and keep iterating over the contents?

answer Oct 16, 2013 by Satish Mishra
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