On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 06:05, Neal Becker <ndbeck...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm working on interfacing to a custom FPGA board.  The kernel driver exposes 
> the FPGA memory via mmap.
>
> It might be nice to use numpy memmap to read/write data.  One issue is that I 
> think I will need to create the memmap array from a fd, not a file name.  The 
> reason is I wrote the driver to only allow 1 exclusive open, and I already 
> have it open for other reasons.  Any chance to create a memmap array from a 
> fd?

Use os.fdopen(fd) to create a file object which can be passed to the
memmap constructor.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless
enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as
though it had an underlying truth."
  -- Umberto Eco
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