Save Binary data.

2005-08-19 Thread GMane Python
Hello All. I have a program that downloads 'gigabytes' of Axis NetCam photos per day. Right now, I set up the process to put the images into a queue, and every 30 or so seconds, 'pop' them from the queue and save them to disc. I save them as individual files. I think that I'd like to modify

Re: Save Binary data.

2005-08-19 Thread Larry Bates
Images are binary data, don't do anything to them just save them to files on disk in their binary format. The extra processing of pickling them isn't going to help. Directories with large numbers of files was a problem in FAT16 and FAT32 filesystems but not really a problem in NTFS or Linux (at l

Re: Save Binary data.

2005-08-19 Thread Benjamin Niemann
GMane Python wrote: > Hello All. > I have a program that downloads 'gigabytes' of Axis NetCam photos per > day. > Right now, I set up the process to put the images into a queue, and every > 30 > or so seconds, 'pop' them from the queue and save them to disc. I save > them as individual files

Re: Save Binary data.

2005-08-19 Thread Mike Meyer
Larry Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Directories with large numbers of files was a problem in FAT16 and > FAT32 filesystems but not really a problem in NTFS or Linux (at > least that I've found). Depends on how you define "large" and what Linux file system you're using. Of course, if you ope