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A slight moderation to get the code working on http://bdurblg.blogspot.se/2011/06/python-split-any-file-binary-to.html (darn, need to get those indentations right...)
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# define the function to split the file into smaller chunks | |
def splitFile(inputFile,chunkSize): | |
#read the contents of the file | |
f = open(inputFile, 'rb') | |
data = f.read() | |
f.close() | |
# get the length of data, ie size of the input file in bytes | |
bytes = len(data) | |
#calculate the number of chunks to be created | |
noOfChunks= bytes/chunkSize | |
if(bytes%chunkSize): | |
noOfChunks+=1 | |
#create a info.txt file for writing metadata | |
f = open('info.txt', 'w') | |
f.write(inputFile+','+'chunk,'+str(noOfChunks)+','+str(chunkSize)) | |
f.close() | |
chunkNames = [] | |
for i in range(0, bytes+1, chunkSize): | |
fn1 = "chunk%s" % i | |
chunkNames.append(fn1) | |
f = open(fn1, 'wb') | |
f.write(data[i:i+ chunkSize]) | |
f.close() | |
#define the function to join the chunks of files into a single file | |
def joinFiles(fileName,noOfChunks,chunkSize): | |
dataList = [] | |
for i in range(0,noOfChunks,1): | |
chunkNum=i * chunkSize | |
chunkName = fileName+'%s'%chunkNum | |
f = open(chunkName, 'rb') | |
dataList.append(f.read()) | |
f.close() | |
for data in dataList: | |
f2 = open(fileName, 'wb') | |
f2.write(data) | |
f2.close() |
Damn, I really needed it... thanks
Thanks for the code - I made few more changes.. check it out here
https://github.com/csmunuku/file_splitter_joiner
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Can we use this to send large video files over UDP protocol?