On Feb 19, 10:00 am, sturlamolden <sturlamol...@yahoo.no> wrote: > On 19 Feb, 03:13, Carl Banks <pavlovevide...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > The offset parameter of mmap itself would be useful to map small > > portions of gigabyte-sized files, and maybe numpy.memmap can take > > advantage of that if the user passes an offset parameter. > > NumPy's memmap is just a wrapper for Python 2.5's mmap. The offset > parameter does not affect the amount that is actually memory mapped.
Yes, that's what I said, but in future numpy.mmap could be updated to take advantage of mmap's new offset parameter. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list