Wolfgang Draxinger wrote: > The problem is, that videos, by nature are rather big files, > however urllib2 wants it's Request objects being prepared > beforehand, which would mean to first load the whole file to memory.
Try using mmap. Here is some untested code: map = mmap(file.fileno(), len(file), access=ACCESS_READ) try: data = mmap.read() request = Request(url, data, headers) ... finally: map.close() - Brian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list