Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: That's expected. seek() and tell() on text (unicode) files are slow by construction. You should open your file in binary mode instead, if you want to do any seeking.
Maybe I should add a note in http://docs.python.org/dev/library/io.html#performance ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11114> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
