> Do you really mean io.StringIO? I guess you want io.BytesIO() .. > > Christian
Mmm... i don't know. I also tried : [code] IDLE 3.0 >>> import io >>> vContent = io.BytesIO() >>> huge = io.open("C:\HUGE_FILE.pcl",'r+b',0) >>> vContent = huge.read() [/code] It still waits a lot... i don't have the patience to wait for the file to load completely... it takes a lot! Thank you for your reply. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list