[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > Anyone ever done this? It looks like Python2.4 won't take a length arg > > 2 Gig since its not seen as an int.
Looking at Python's source (mmapmodule.c), it seems that "mmap.mmap" always sets the offset argument in Windows' MapViewOfFile and UNIX' mmap to 0. This means that it is always mapping from the beginning of the file. Thus, Python's mmap module is useless for large files. This is really bad coding. The one that wrote mmapmodule.c didn't consider the possibility that a 64 bit file system like NTFS can harbour files to large to fit in a 32 address space. Thus, mmapmodule.c needs to be fixed before it can be used for large files. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
