Robert Bossy wrote: > Indeed! Maybe the best choice for chunksize would be the file's buffer > size... I won't search the doc how to get the file's buffer size because > I'm too cool to use that function and prefer the seek() option since > it's lighning fast regardless the size of the file and it takes near to > zero memory.
And makes a hole in the file, I suppose, hence the fragmentation. The OP explicitly asked for an uncompressed file. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list