Grant Edwards 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?
It didn't -- but that's on my platform; I have no idea how it'll work on another platform; which is why I wanted to be able to first create the file of the specified size, and then start writing to it. >>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. According to Python, posix, Linux, Windows, ANSI-C? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
