How to efficiently read binary files?

I want to process large binary files (>2GB) in Python. I have played
around with prototypes in pure Python and profiled the code. Most of
the time seems to be spent converting back and forth to and from strings
using the struct module. Is there a way to directly read into an array
of integers in Python?

TIA

David Lees
Received on Mon May 1 00:48:16 2006