[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Is there any simple way of generating this 1MB string (other than keep > appending to a string until it reaches 1MB len)?
You might of course use 'x' * 1000000 for fairly quickly generating a single string holding one million `x'. Yet, your idea of generating a sparse file is interesting. I never tried it with Python, but would not see why Python would not allow it. Did someone ever played with sparse files in Python? (One problem with sparse files is that it is next to impossible for a normal user to create an exact copy. There is no fast way to read read them either.) -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
