Question

i am facing some problem with files with huge data.
i need to skip doing some execution on those files.
i get the data of the file into a variable.
now i need to get the byte of the variable and if it is greater than 102400 , then print a message.

update : i cannot open the files , since it is present in a tar file.
the content is already getting copied to a variable called ‘data’
i am able to print contents of the variable data. i just need to check if it has more than 102400 bytes.

thanks

Answer 1

Just check the length of the string, then:

if len(data) > 102400:
  print "Skipping file which is too large, at %d bytes" % len(data)
else:
  process(data) # The normal processing