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2018-08-05 Thread Sharan Basappa
I am quite new to Python. I am learning Python as I am interested in machine learning. The issue is, I have not found any ML forum where novices like me can get help. I have tried reddit and each of my posts have gone unanswered. Looks like reddit forum prefers either abstract topics on ML or ve

why doesn't an mmap.mmap object have some kind of memoryview method?

2018-08-05 Thread Cameron Simpson
I'm tinkering with a module which scans video files. The MP4 parser has a `discard_data` parameter which tells certain parts of the parser to discard some of the scanned data, particularly the MDAT box parse because I don't normally want to blow the machine's RAM on a huge video stream - I'm nor

Re: why doesn't an mmap.mmap object have some kind of memoryview method?

2018-08-05 Thread Cameron Simpson
I should add that I'm using CPython 3 on a Mac, happy to receive CPython 3 UNIX-specific advice. - Cameron On 06Aug2018 09:28, Cameron Simpson wrote: I'm tinkering with a module which scans video files. The MP4 parser has a `discard_data` parameter which tells certain parts of the parser to d

Re: why doesn't an mmap.mmap object have some kind of memoryview method?

2018-08-05 Thread eryk sun
On Sun, Aug 5, 2018 at 11:28 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: > > It seems obvious to me that a method returning a memoryview of the mapped > file would be very handy here: no data copies at all, and not even any I/O > unless the data are accessed. But I see no such method in the documentation. mmap ob

Re: why doesn't an mmap.mmap object have some kind of memoryview method?

2018-08-05 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 05Aug2018 23:55, eryk sun wrote: On Sun, Aug 5, 2018 at 11:28 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: It seems obvious to me that a method returning a memoryview of the mapped file would be very handy here: no data copies at all, and not even any I/O unless the data are accessed. But I see no such metho

Re: machine learning forums

2018-08-05 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 05 Aug 2018 06:05:46 -0700, Sharan Basappa wrote: > I am quite new to Python. I am learning Python as I am interested in > machine learning. The issue is, I have not found any ML forum where > novices like me can get help. I have tried reddit and each of my posts > have gone unanswered.

Re: why doesn't an mmap.mmap object have some kind of memoryview method?

2018-08-05 Thread MRAB
On 2018-08-06 00:28, Cameron Simpson wrote: I'm tinkering with a module which scans video files. The MP4 parser has a `discard_data` parameter which tells certain parts of the parser to discard some of the scanned data, particularly the MDAT box parse because I don't normally want to blow the mac

Re: machine learning forums

2018-08-05 Thread downtime
You might also try courses on Udemy and Udacity. I know Udemy is always having sales on courses for like $10.99. They have beginner/novice courses for all kinds of topics and in my experience, there are some pretty good ones. On 2018-08-05, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sun, 05 Aug 2018 06:05:46 -0