How to efficiently read binary files?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2006-04-30, David Lees <debl2NoSpam at verizon.net> wrote:
> I want to process large binary files (>2GB) in Python.  I have played 
> around with prototypes in pure Python and profiled the code.  Most of 
> the time seems to be spent converting back and forth to and from strings 
> using the struct module.  Is there a way to directly read into an array 
> of integers in Python?

Perhaps the numarray module?

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Grant Edwards
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