> > > Additional info: my file is from a data provider, do not know what > > they used to compress it. Previous files worked ok, this one is the > > 1st over 2GB. Winzip has no problem with it. > > It could be you are using a Python with an in-built limit of 2GB on file > size. What happens if you open the file, seek past the 2GB point and > then try and read data? >
Steve, I used is_zipfile function, which from does exactly that from a quick read - goes to the end, reads expected string. It worked fine. Tried regular Windows 2.4.4 and 2.5.1, same result. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
