split large file by string/regex

[Denis S. Otkidach]

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 20:48:16 +0100
Martin Dieringer <dieringe at zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:

> "Denis S. Otkidach" <ods at strana.ru> writes:
[...]
> > re module works fine with mmap-ed file, so no need to read it into
> > memory.
> >
> 
> thank you, this is the solution! 
> Now I can mmap.find all locations and then read the chunks them via
> file.seek and file.read

mmap-ed files also support subscription and slicing.  I guess
mmfile[start:stop] would more readable.

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Denis S. Otkidach
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