Python 2.5, problems reading large ( > 4Gbyes) files on win2k

[Paul Duffy]

Bill Tydeman wrote:
> Just curious, but since the file size limitation on NTFS is 4 GB, have 
> you confirmed that it isn't some other part of the interaction that is 
> causing the problem?   What FS is hosting the files?
I don't think that is correct.  Groovy version of app runs just fine.
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> On 2 Mar 2007 10:09:15 -0800, *paduffy at cisco.com 
> <mailto:paduffy at cisco.com>* <paduffy at cisco.com 
> <mailto:paduffy at cisco.com>> wrote:
>
>     Folks,
>
>     I've a Python 2.5 app running on 32 bit Win 2k SP4 (NTFS volume).
>     Reading a file of 13 GBytes, one line at a time.  It appears that,
>     once the read line passes the 4 GByte boundary, I am getting
>     occasional random line concatenations.  Input file is confirmed good
>     via UltraEdit.  Groovy version of the same app runs fine.
>
>     Any ideas?
>
>     Cheers
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