Jay Baker jaybaker
jaybaker
/ quickly create large file in python
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December 10, 2021 08:01
— forked from ilivessevili/quickly create large file in python
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| import os | |
| GB1 = 1024*1024*1024 # 1GB | |
| size = 50 # desired size in GB | |
| with open('large_file', 'wb') as fout: | |
| for i in range(size + 1): | |
| fout.write(os.urandom(GB1)) |