Re: Fast reading and unpacking of binary data (struct module)

2009-07-22 Thread Neal Becker
Daniel Platz wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Python newbie question about reading data from a binary file. > I have an huge binary file from an external program. I want to read > and process the data in this file in a reasonable time. It turns out > that the reading of the data itself and the processin

Re: Fast reading and unpacking of binary data (struct module)

2009-07-22 Thread John Machin
Daniel Platz googlemail.com> writes: > > Hi, > > I have a Python newbie question about reading data from a binary file. > I have an huge binary file from an external program. Please translate "huge" into Mb. Also, how much free real memory do you have? > I want to read > and process the data

Re: Fast reading and unpacking of binary data (struct module)

2009-07-21 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:00:13 -0300, Daniel Platz escribió: I have an huge binary file from an external program. I want to read and process the data in this file in a reasonable time. It turns out that the reading of the data itself and the processing do not need most of the time. However, whe