sturlamolden wrote: > 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.
if you've gotten that far, maybe you could come up with a patch, instead of stating that someone else "needs to fix it" ? </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
