Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2006-01-27, Tim Chase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>> fd.write('0') >> >>[cut] >> >>>f = file('large_file.bin','wb') >>>f.seek(409600000-1) >>>f.write('\x00') >> >>While a mindblowingly simple/elegant/fast solution (kudos!), the >>OP's file ends up with full of the character zero (ASCII 0x30), >>while your solution ends up full of the NUL character (ASCII 0x00): > > > Oops. I missed the fact that he was writing 0x30 and not 0x00. > > Yes, the "hole" in the file will read as 0x00 bytes. If the OP > actually requires that the file contain something other than > 0x00 bytes, then my solution won't work. >
Won't work!? It's absolutely fabulous! I just need something big, quick and zeros work great. How the heck does that make a 400 MB file that fast? It literally takes a second or two while every other solution takes at least 2 - 5 minutes. Awesome... thanks for the tip!!! Thanks to all for the advice... one can really learn things here :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list