Re: Reading unformatted big-endian files

2006-08-11 Thread John Machin
On 11/08/2006 8:35 PM, Andrea Gavana wrote: > I hope performances will not change so much: fortran is > very fast in reading files (but I use it only in this case, I love to > use Python)... well, let's see :-D Well FORTRAN would have to have *something* going for it :-) I vaguely recall in a pr

Re: Reading unformatted big-endian files

2006-08-11 Thread John Machin
Andrea Gavana wrote: > "err=8" means that, if an error occours in > reading the file, > it should go to the label "8 continue" and continue reading the file Silently ignoring errors when reading a file doesn't sound like a good idea to me at all, especially if different records have different for