in place input

[andy at post.tau.ac.il]

i'm working on an python application with intensive i/o.

file.read() and its cousins all allocate and return a new string.

I want to know if there is a way in which I can provide the space on which the 
data is going to be put, in order to recycle memory, instead of allocating it 
each time again and again.

thanks





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