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ackdav/line_count.py

Created April 14, 2017 10:37
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Fast way to get line count in python
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line_count.py
def wccount(filename):
out = subprocess.Popen(['wc', '-l', filename],
stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
stderr=subprocess.STDOUT
).communicate()[0]
return int(out.lstrip().split()[0])
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