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readlines() with large file raises: IOError: [Errno 12] Cannotallocate memory

Hi there

I am trying to read the content of a really large text file (1GByte) and I get
the following exception if I try to call readlines() on the opened textfile:

IOError: [Errno 12] Cannot allocate memory
This is my code:
INFILE="/home/myuser/myfile"
open_infile = open( INFILE, 'r' )
lines = open_infile.rea dlines()
Any idea whats going on there?
Does pyhon tries to put the content into machine's RAM (512 MB) which is not big enough so an
exception is raised?

Thanks in advance,
Nico

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