On Jan 9, 3:46 am, Carl Banks <pavlovevide...@gmail.com> wrote: > The zipfile format is kind of brain dead, you can't tell where the end > of the file is supposed to be by looking at the header. If the end of > file hasn't yet been reached there could be more data. To make > matters worse, somehow zip files came to have text comments simply > appended to the end of them. (Probably this was for the benefit of > people who would cat them to the terminal.) > > Anyway, if you see something that doesn't adhere to the zipfile > format, you don't have any foolproof way to know if it's because the > file is corrupted or if it's just an appended comment. > > Most zipfile readers use a heuristic to distinguish. Python's zipfile > module just assumes it's corrupted. > > The following post from a while back gives a solution that tries to > snip the comment off so that zipfile module can handle it. It might > help you out. > > http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/c2008e48368c6543 > > Carl Banks
Thanks Carl. I tried Scott's getzip() function yesterday... I stumbled upon it in my searches. It didn't seem to help in my case, though it did produce a different error: ValueError, substring not found. Not sure what that means. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
