A Python interface to sendfile(2)
Project description
Quick links
Home page: http://code.google.com/p/pysendfile
Download: http://code.google.com/p/pysendfile/downloads/list
About
A python interface to sendfile(2) system call.
Install
$ sudo setup.py install
…or:
$ easy_install pysendfile
Supported platforms
Linux
OSX
FreeBSD
Dragon Fly BSD
SunOS
AIX (non properly tested)
Python versions from 2.5 to 3.3 by using a single code base.
Example usage
import socket
import errno
from sendfile import sendfile
file = open("somefile", "rb")
sock = socket.socket()
sock.connect(("127.0.0.1", 8021))
offset = 0
while 1:
try:
sent = sendfile(sock.fileno(), file.fileno(), offset, 4096)
except OSError, err:
if err.errno == (errno.EAGAIN, errno.EBUSY): # retry
continue
raise
else:
if sent == 0:
break # done
offset += sent
