I've recently meet the readinto method of file object (in Python 2.7), it is similar to fread in C. It seems to be convenient and powerful in some case. I plan to use it to read several files into ...

I have some large (even gzipped around 10GB) files, which contain an ASCII header and then in principle numpy.recarrays of about 3MB each, we call them "events". My first approach looked like this:...

Copying a File using a straight-forward approach in Python is typically like this: def copyfileobj(fsrc, fdst, length=16*1024): """copy data from file-like object fsrc to file-like object fdst"""...

I'm writing a large bitarray to a file using this code: import bitarray bits = bitarray.bitarray(bin='0000011111') #just an example with open('somefile.bin', 'wb') as fh: bits.tofile(fh) Howev...

I must admit that I never understood what are the streams are all about- I always thought it's an internet thing. But now I run into a code that used a stream to load a file localy and I wonder if ...