On 19 Feb, 03:13, Carl Banks <pavlovevide...@gmail.com> wrote: > The offset parameter of mmap itself would be useful to map small > portions of gigabyte-sized files, and maybe numpy.memmap can take > advantage of that if the user passes an offset parameter.
NumPy's memmap is just a wrapper for Python 2.5's mmap. The offset parameter does not affect the amount that is actually memory mapped. S.M. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list