On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 11:28 AM, webcomm <rya...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hmm. When I open it in Windows or with 7-Zip, it contains a text file > that has the data I would expect it to have. I guess that alone > doesn't necessarily prove it's a zip file? > > datum is something I'm downloading via a web service. The providers > of the service say it's a zip file, and have provided a code sample in > C# (which I know nothing about) that shows how to deal with it. In > the code sample, the file is base64 decoded and then unzipped. I'm > trying to write something in Python to decode and unzip the file.
Send us a sample of this file in question... cheers James -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list