Python 2.5, problems reading large ( > 4Gbyes) files on win2k

[Bill Tydeman]

Just curious, but since the file size limitation on NTFS is 4 GB, have you
confirmed that it isn't some other part of the interaction that is causing
the problem?   What FS is hosting the files?

On 2 Mar 2007 10:09:15 -0800, paduffy at cisco.com <paduffy at cisco.com> wrote:
>
> Folks,
>
> I've a Python 2.5 app running on 32 bit Win 2k SP4 (NTFS volume).
> Reading a file of 13 GBytes, one line at a time.  It appears that,
> once the read line passes the 4 GByte boundary, I am getting
> occasional random line concatenations.  Input file is confirmed good
> via UltraEdit.  Groovy version of the same app runs fine.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Cheers
>
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