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Re: How to efficiently read binary files?
From: Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com>
Date: Sun Apr 30 2006 - 23:54:22 CEST
Date: Sun Apr 30 2006 - 23:54:22 CEST
On 2006-04-30, David Lees <debl2NoSpam@verizon.net> wrote:
> 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?
Perhaps the numarray module?
-- Grant Edwards grante@visi.comReceived on Mon May 1 00:48:18 2006