On 2005-06-06, Jan Danielsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Erik Max Francis wrote: >>> Is there any way to create a file with a specified size? >> >> What do you want to put in the file? Once you've answered that >> question, the solution should present itself. > > Check blocks from an FEC-encoder (Freenet, more specifically). > > The problem is that the design I'm working on won't guarantee what > order the blocks will be returned in -- so I need to be able to seek to > block n's location and write the ckeck block.
Exactly. And precisely how did that fail? > Next block could be m, where m < n. So, they aren't continous. If you do a seek before each write, it doesn't matter. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! I'm also against at BODY-SURFING!! visi.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list