Lie Ryan, 22.02.2010 14:29: > On 02/22/10 19:43, Norman Rieß wrote: >> Am 02/22/10 09:02, schrieb Steven D'Aprano: >>> On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:49:51 +0100, Norman Rieß wrote: >>> >>> >>>> This is the actual code: >>>> >>>> source_file = bz2.BZ2File(file, "r") >>>> for line in source_file: >>>> print line.strip() >>>> >>>> print "Exiting" >>>> print "I used file: " + file >>>> >>> Have you verified that the bz file is good by opening it in another >>> application? >>> >>> >>> >>> >> Yes, bzcat is running through the file fine. And piping bzcat output >> into the python script reading stdin works fine, too. > > test with using something other than bzcat; bzcat does certain things > differently because of the way it works (a cat for bzipped file). Try > using plain "bunzip2 filename.bz2"
Please note that all of this has already been suggested on the python-tutor list. Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
