Merge pull request #7943 from theultimatecrouton/doc_fix

charris · web-flow · commit 6849fa3bea13 · 2016-08-25T10:29:39.000-05:00
DOC: #7927. Remove deprecated note for memmap relevant for Python <2.5
diff --git a/numpy/core/memmap.py b/numpy/core/memmap.py
@@ -102,11 +102,8 @@ class memmap(ndarray):
     The memmap object can be used anywhere an ndarray is accepted.
     Given a memmap ``fp``, ``isinstance(fp, numpy.ndarray)`` returns
     ``True``.
-
-    Memory-mapped arrays use the Python memory-map object which
-    (prior to Python 2.5) does not allow files to be larger than a
-    certain size depending on the platform. This size is always < 2GB
-    even on 64-bit systems.
+    
+    Memory-mapped files cannot be larger than 2GB on 32-bit systems.
 
     When a memmap causes a file to be created or extended beyond its
     current size in the filesystem, the contents of the new part are
