Kent Johnson tds.net> writes:
>
> Footnote 2.3 says, "Specifying a buffer size currently has no effect
> on systems that don't have setvbuf(). The interface to specify the
> buffer size is not done using a method that calls setvbuf(), because
> that may dump core when called after any I/O has be
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Dave Kuhlman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 09:10:29PM +0530, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote:
> Take a look at the optional "bufsize" argument to the "open" built-in
> function:
>
> "The optional bufsize argument specifies the file's desired bu
On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 09:10:29PM +0530, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote:
>
> Suppose I need to
> write a program which needs to parse lots of binary files. This requires
> multiple reads of small amounts of data. Obviously if I need to do this
> very often, I need to do some kind of buffering to redu
Suppose I need to
write a program which needs to parse lots of binary files. This requires
multiple reads of small amounts of data. Obviously if I need to do this
very often, I need to do some kind of buffering to reduce IO.
My question is this - does Python have its own buffering while doing
f
