Antoine Pitrou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Le jeudi 11 septembre 2008 à 16:01 +0200, Anthon van der Neut a écrit : > The thing however was resolved by reading multiple smaller chunks indeed > 1Mb if the filesize exceeds 1Mb (in the latter case the original read() > is done.
It's too complicated. Just use chunks in all cases (even small files) and you are done. There should be no visible performance downside to doing so. Using fixed-size chunks to read binary data from a file of an unknown size isn't a Python-specific idiom, really. It's the same in C, C++, PHP, etc. ---------- title: file read preallocs 'size' bytes which can cause memory problems -> file read preallocs 'size' bytes which can cause memory problems _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3531> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
