python代码统计大文本文件行数

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
__author__ = "Liangjian (http://blog.csdn.net/wsliangjian)"  
__version__ = "1.0.0"  
__copyright__ = "Copyright (c) 2013-2013 Liangjian 2013-11-06 18:04:00"  
__license__ = "GNU"

import time
start_time = time.time()

def block(file, size=65536):
    while True:
        nb = file.read(size)
        if not nb: 
            break
        yield nb

with open("bigfile.txt", "r") as f:
    print(sum(line.count("\n") for line in block(f)))

print(time.time() - start_time, "seconds")