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Diffstat (limited to 'numpy')
| -rw-r--r-- | numpy/core/memmap.py | 7 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/numpy/core/memmap.py b/numpy/core/memmap.py index 5f6182742..6fa845277 100644 --- a/numpy/core/memmap.py +++ b/numpy/core/memmap.py @@ -102,11 +102,8 @@ class memmap(ndarray): The memmap object can be used anywhere an ndarray is accepted. Given a memmap ``fp``, ``isinstance(fp, numpy.ndarray)`` returns ``True``. - - Memory-mapped arrays use the Python memory-map object which - (prior to Python 2.5) does not allow files to be larger than a - certain size depending on the platform. This size is always < 2GB - even on 64-bit systems. + + Memory-mapped files cannot be larger than 2GB on 32-bit systems. When a memmap causes a file to be created or extended beyond its current size in the filesystem, the contents of the new part are |