> > I'm not convinced. Where would you ever care about reading a file in > > N-bytes chucks? > > This was once a standard paradigm for IBM mainframe files. I vaguely > remember having to specify the block/record size when opening such files. > I have no idea of today's practice though.
I believe this still comes up in 100% of the cases where you're buffering reads of large binary files. Given lot of RAM, this probably doesn't come up as much nowadays. Raymond _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
