Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:51:19 -0500, Gökhan SEVER kirjoitti: > What's the reason again that memmap only works with binary files?
There are no separate "text files" and "binary files". All files are binary, some just contain text that in some cases represents an array of numbers. Memmap views also text files as binary. It returns you an array representing the *character data* in the file. > Could the functionality be extended to text files as well? In principle, yes. But this would need special parsing of the text in the memmap. Doing this right would be considerably more work than just representing the binary data. Also, I doubt that this would be very useful: representing large amounts of data as text is not efficient. I also think few people have interest in this feature. -- Pauli Virtanen _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
