File Read/Write test program

[andy]

On Wednesday 08 Jan 2003 2:11 am, Manuel M. Garcia wrote:
> meg = "*" * (1048576 * 20)
>
> gives you a string of length 1048576 * 20 in one step
>
> Manuel
>
> On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 20:11:33 +0000, andy <andy at eastonwest.co.uk> wrote:
> (edit)
>
> >def generate_chunk(megabytes):
> >    """ returns a string containing megabytes*1048576 asterisks """
> >    meg="*"
> >    for n in range(20):
> >        meg=meg+meg
> >    chunk=""
> >    for n in range(megabytes):
> >        chunk=chunk+meg
> >    return chunk


thanx mate.  I just knew there must be a better way to do it, but couldn't 
figure out where to start looking.

Looks neater, and more intuitive.

As I expected, without all that heavy-duty memory copying, it's SIGNIFICANTLY 
faster too.

:-)

The first thing I noticed about Python is that it was really easy to learn.  
The second thing I noticed is that there's just *SO* *MUCH* to learn!

regards,
-andyj