On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Haralanov, Mitko <mitko.harala...@intel.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am using Python to read from a binary device file which requires that all > read sizes are in 8byte multiples and the user's buffer is 8byte aligned. > > I am currently using a file object and the file.read() method. However, the > issue is that the file.read() method allocates the buffer passed to C > function under the covers and, therefore, the alignment is arbitrary. > > Is there a way that I can get file.read() to use an 8byte aligned buffer?
This is a lot like what my odirect project does: http://stromberg.dnsalias.org/~strombrg/odirect/ It does buffer alignment, because O_DIRECT requires buffer alignment. It's a Python-callable SWIG wrapper for some C code. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
