Haralanov, Mitko wrote: >> For control at that level you'd be better off using >> direct system calls, i.e. os.open() and os.read(), >> then you can read exacty the number of bytes you want. >> > > The problem is not controlling the number of bytes read. That part seems > to be working. The issue is that the buffer into which the data is placed > needs to be of certain alignment (8byte-aligned). Python does not seem to > have a way that allows me to control that. > > Thanks, > - Mitko
Did you try to set buffering parameter to 0 (unbuffered) ? Eventually going to os.open() which map tp low level (eventually followed by an os.fdopen()) http://docs.python.org/2/library/os.html#os.open A+ Laurent. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
