[NMLUG] Python tight loop causing massive CPU barfage

[peter at espen.net (Peter Espen)]

You're probably trying to run it directly as a script rather than via 
python, as in:

python myscript.py

Put a:

#!/usr/bin/env python

as the very first thing in the file, and then you'll be able to run it 
directly, as in:

./myscript.py

Assuming you've put it in a file named myscript.py and you've kept the 
indentation correct.

The script is enclosed as a file here for your convenience:

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On Feb 9, 2005, at 6:43 PM, Paul Tietjens wrote:

> Peter Espen wrote:
>> The following python code searched a heiarchy of 28,517 directories 
>> and 222,766 files.  For each "regular" file found, it opened and 
>> searched the first 1024 lines for any line beginning with 'Subject'.
>> Ran in 7 minutes 13 seconds on a fast linux system.
>
> I've played with it, and so far the only output I can get from it is:
>
> line 6: syntax error near unexpected token `foo('
> line 6: `def foo( total, dirname, filelist):'
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