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Re: regex over files

Gerald Klix <gerald.k...@klix.ch>

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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