[Numpy-discussion] Memmapping .npy

[Robert Kern]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 14:30, Gael Varoquaux
<gael.varoquaux at normalesup.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 02:27:54PM -0500, Robert Kern wrote:
>> > If yes why isn't it exposed in numpy.load? If not, the questions
>> > above apply.
>
>> I have no idea. I didn't write that code.
>
> Robert, you know these things way better than me, so please pardon my
> stupid question:
>
>  Would it be desirable to expose memmapping in numpy.load? Or is this
>  going to drive us into problems?
>
> If it would be desireable, I could try to find time for a patch. I could
> use this in my work, and if I am going to implement it, I might as well
> do it for everybody.

load() would need to grow a mode= keyword argument to properly support
memory-mapping. Possibly, we could change it to

def load(filename, mmap_mode=None):
    ...

With mmap_mode=None, just do a plain read; otherwise mmap with that
particular mode. We can introduce that immediately in 1.3 since
memmap=True never worked.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless
enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as
though it had an underlying truth."
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