regex over files

Gerald Klix Gerald.Klix at klix.ch
Mon Apr 25 11:11:56 EDT 2005


Map the file into RAM by using the mmap module.
The file's contents than is availabel as a seachable string.

HTH,
Gerald

Robin Becker schrieb:
> Is there any way to get regexes to work on non-string/unicode objects. I 
> would like to split large files by regex and it seems relatively hard to 
> do so without having the whole file in memory. Even with buffers it 
> seems hard to get regexes to indicate that they failed because of buffer 
> termination and getting a partial match to be resumable seems out of the 
> question.
> 
> What interface does re actually need for its src objects?

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