Jim Garrison wrote:
> andrew cooke wrote:
>> Jim Garrison wrote:
>>> I'm an experienced C/Java/Perl developer learning Python.
>>> What's the canonical Python way of implementing this pseudocode?
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>> but not doing much binary i/o
>> myself, i suggest:
>>
>> with open(...) as f:
>> while (True):
>> buf = f.read(10000)
>> if not buf: break
>> ...
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> For a one-off,,your first example would work fine. See the
> other reply from Tim Chase for a much more Pythonesque
> pattern. I don't want "for line in f:" because binary
> files don't necessarily have lines and I'm bulk processing
> files potentially 100MB and larger. Reading them one line
> at a time would be highly inefficient.
It would be more work, but subclassing the file class, with a next method
yielding the binary record you want would be fairly clean.
Mel.
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