k.i.n.g. wrote: > I think I am not clear with my question, I am sorry. Here goes the > exact requirement. > > We use dd command in Linux to create a file with of required size. In > similar way, on windows I would like to use python to take the size of > the file( 50MB, 1GB ) as input from user and create a uncompressed > file of the size given by the user. > > ex: If user input is 50M, script should create 50Mb of blank or empty > file
You mean all zero bytes? Python cannot guarantee that the system will not compress such a file. For testing data transfer rates, random data is a usually a better choice. -- --Bryan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
