Anders wrote > An mmap object is one of the things you can make a memoryview of, > although looking again, it seems you don't even need to, you can > just re.search the mmap object directly. > > re.search'ing the mmap object means the operating system takes care of > the streaming for you, reading in parts of the file only as necessary.
Provided mmap releases memory when possible, this is a good solution, and probably in many cases better than the one I suggested. And closer to what the original poster asked for. So I've learnt something. Thank you all. -- Jonathan _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
