sturlamolden schrieb: > Looking at Python's source (mmapmodule.c), it seems that "mmap.mmap" > always sets the offset argument in Windows MapViewOfFile and UNIX 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 > posibility 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.
You know this isn't true in general. It is true for a 32-bit address space only. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
