How to speed up reading bytes from file?

[Skip Montanaro]

    Brad> I have a binary file that consists of variable length
    Brad> "elements". I need to scan over the file, reading in elements,
    Brad> seeking over some elements, etc.

    Brad> I do not want to load the entire file into memory.

Have you tried the mmap module?  Should work on Windows and Unix.

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