On 12/24/18, Drew Warwick <dwarwic...@gmail.com> wrote: > The struct unpack API is inconvenient to use with files. I must do: > > struct.unpack(fmt, file.read(struct.calcsize(fmt))
Alternatively, we can memory-map the file via mmap. An important difference is that the mmap buffer interface is low-level (e.g. no file pointer and the offset has to be page aligned), so we have to slice out bytes for the given offset and size. We can avoid copying via memoryview slices. We can also use ctypes instead of memoryview/struct. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
