Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2007-02-09, Philipp Pagel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > for filename in file_list:
> > file = os.popen('uncompress -c '+filename, 'r')
> > do_something(file)
> > file.close()
> >
> > This works fine for some files but results in
> >
> > 'write error onstdout: Broken pipe'
> As far as I can tell, your do_something doesn't consume the entire file.
> So you close the file prematurly, which results in the uncompress/zcat
> program trying to write to a pipe that is closed on the otherside,
> giving you the above message.
You are right: some of the files do not fulfill certain
critereia causing so_somehting() to return before the entire file is
processed.
Thanks!
cu
Philipp
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