Does Python support zero-copy I/O?

Question

I have two open file objects, dest and src. File object dest is opened for writing, with the seek position placed at some offset within th

Answer 1

Since version 3.3, Python has os.sendfile, which interfaces to various Unix variants' sendfile(2) zero-copy I/O interfaces. It operates on file descriptors, not general file-like objects. For older Pythons, there's py-sendfile.