Thomas Heller theller at python.net
Tue Dec 2 04:54:19 EST 2003

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Irmen de Jong <irmen at -NOSPAM-REMOVETHIS-xs4all.nl> writes:

> Bengt Richter wrote:
>> What's that first zero argument?
> [...]
>> Does that mean you are trying to use stdin as the open file handle?
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> No it doesn't, according to Thomas Heller's post in this thread.
> Thomas said 0 means "not associated with a file" on windows...

mmapmodule.c internally uses INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE of a file handle of 0
is used.

As I said, read the source (and MSDN).  And then submit a documentation
patch <wink>.

Thomas

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