On 2005-06-06, Jan Danielsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>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 fai
Jan Danielsson wrote:
>Is there any way to create a file with a specified size?
Besides the simple
def make_empty_file(filename, size):
f = open(filename, "wb")
f.write("\0" * size)
f.close()
?
If the file is large, try (after testing and fixing any
bugs):
def make_empty_file(filenam
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 tha
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-enc
On 2005-06-06, Jan Danielsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Is there any way to create a file with a specified size?
Sure:
1) Open a new file for writing.
2) Seek to "specified size"-1.
3) Write one byte.
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! I just put lots of
http://python.org/doc/2.4.1/modindex.html
this is the global module index. I'd keep it handy to search through since
it has some of the most useful stuff every intented! =D Try looking through
here to help. . .That's the best I can think of.
-Ivan
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What version of python do you use? I'll send you the module library. .
.(sorry for double message)
-Ivan
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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 des
> > Can you elaborate more? Just any file?
>
>Yes -- a binary file.
>
>The file will contain check blocks for another file. The problem is
>that the order of the received check blocks is not specified, so I need
>to be able seek to the block's position in the file, and then just write
>the blo
Jan Danielsson 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.
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