Hi, another question: What's the most efficient way of copying data between two file-like objects?
f1.write(f2.read()) doesn't seem to me as efficient as it might be, as a string containing all the contents of f2 will be created and thrown away. In the case of two StringIO objects, this means there's a point when the contents is held in memory three times. Reading and writing a series of short blocks to avoid a large copy buffer seems ugly to me, and string objects will be created and thrown away all the time. Do I have to live with that? (In C, I would do the same thing, only without having to create and throw away anything while overwriting a copy buffer, and being used to doing everything the pedestrian way, anyway.) -- Thomas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
