Hi, I am relatively new to doing serious work in python. I am using it to access a large number of log files. Some of the logs get corrupted and I need to detect that when processing them. This code seems to work for quite a few of the logs (all same structure) It also correctly identifies some corrupt logs but then it identifies others as being corrupt when they are not.
example error msg from below code: Could not open the log file: '/disk/7-29-04-02-01.console.log.tar.gz' Exception: CRC check\ failed 0x8967e931 != 0x4e5f1036L When I manually examine the supposed corrupt log file and use "tar -xzvof /disk/7-29-04-02-01.console.log.tar.gz " on it, it opens just fine. Is there anything wrong with how I am using this module? (extra code removed for clarity) if tarfile.is_tarfile( file ): try: xf = tarfile.open( file, "r:gz" ) for locFile in xf: logfile = xf.extractfile( locFile ) validFileFlag = True # iterate through each log file, grab the first and the last lines lines = iter( logfile ) firstLine = lines.next() for nextLine in lines: .... continue logfile.close() ... xf.close() except Exception, e: validFileFlag = False msg = "\nCould not open the log file: " + repr(file) + " Exception: " + str(e) + "\n" else: validFileFlag = False lTime = extractFileNameTime( file ) msg = ">>>>>>> Warning " + file + " is NOT a valid tar archive \n" print msg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list