On Jan 8, 8:39 pm, "James Mills" <prolo...@shortcircuit.net.au> wrote: > Send us a sample of this file in question...
Here's a sample with some dummy data from the web service: http://webcomm.webfactional.com/htdocs/data.zip That's the zip created in this line of my code... f = open('data.zip', 'wb') If I open the file it contains as unicode in my text editor (EditPlus) on Windows XP, there is ostensibly nothing wrong with it. It looks like valid XML. But if I return it to my browser with python+django, there are bad characters every other character If I unzip it like this... popen("unzip data.zip") ...then the bad characters are 'FFFD' characters as described and pictured here... http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/... If I unzip it like this... getzip('data.zip', ignoreable=30000) ...using Scott's function at... http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/c2008e48368c6543 ...then the bad characters are \x00 characters. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
