Gerhard Häring wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I want to scan a file byte for byte [...] >> while True: >> ch = inputFile.read(1) >> [...] But it is very slow. What is the fastest way to do this? Using some >> native call? Using a buffer? Using whatever? > > Read in blocks, not byte for byte. I had good experiences with block > sizes like 4096 or 8192.
It's difficult to handle overlaps. The four byte sequence may occur at the end of one block and beginning of the next. You'd need to check for these special cases. Jeremy -- Jeremy Sanders http://www.jeremysanders.net/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
