Gary Robinson wrote: > One of our users received an exception, "error: Error -5 while > decompressing data from struct.unpack," in the course of a > struct.unpack operation. I haven't been able to discern what Error -5 > is in this context. In experiments here I wasn't able to elicit that > exception. > > There's a system exception EINTR which is 5 -- but that's 5, not -5. > > Any help on this would be most appreciated.
from what I can tell, the word "decompressing" is only used in the zlib sources in Python. are you sure the user didn't mean "zlib.decompress" instead of "struct.unpack" ? </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
