On 3/13/13 3:53 PM, Francesc Alted wrote: > On 3/13/13 2:45 PM, Andrea Cimatoribus wrote: >> Hi everybody, I hope this has not been discussed before, I couldn't >> find a solution elsewhere. >> I need to read some binary data, and I am using numpy.fromfile to do >> this. Since the files are huge, and would make me run out of memory, >> I need to read data skipping some records (I am reading data recorded >> at high frequency, so basically I want to read subsampling). > [clip] > > You can do a fid.seek(offset) prior to np.fromfile() and the it will > read from offset. See the docstrings for `file.seek()` on how to use it. >
Ups, you were already using file.seek(). Disregard, please. -- Francesc Alted _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
