Implementing file reading in C/Python

[Grant Edwards]

On 2009-01-09, Johannes Bauer <dfnsonfsduifb at gmx.de> wrote:

> I've come from C/C++ and am now trying to code some Python because I
> absolutely love the language. However I still have trouble getting
> Python code to run efficiently. Right now I have a easy task: Get a
> file,

If I were you, I'd try mmap()ing the file instead of reading it
into string objects one chunk at a time.

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