Implementing file reading in C/Python

[Hrvoje Niksic]

sturlamolden <sturlamolden at yahoo.no> writes:

> On Jan 9, 6:41 pm, Sion Arrowsmith <si... at chiark.greenend.org.uk>
> wrote:
>
>> You've snipped the bit further on in that sentence where the OP
>> says that the file of interest is 2GB. Do you still want to try
>> mmap'ing it?
>
> Python's mmap object does not take an offset parameter. If it did, one
> could mmap smaller portions of the file.

As of 2.6 it does, but that might not be of much use if you're using
2.5.x or earlier.  If you speak Python/C and really need offset, you
could backport the mmap module from 2.6 and compile it under a
different name for 2.5.