On Jan 5, 10:01 pm, random joe <pywi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jan 5, 9:00 pm, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> > import gzip > > > in_file = gzip.open(r"C:\2012-January.txt.gz") > > out_file = open(r"C:\2012-January.txt.tmp", "wb") > > out_file.write(in_file.read()) > > in_file.close() > > out_file.close() > > > in_file = gzip.open(r"C:\2012-January.txt.tmp") > > out_file = open(r"C:\2012-January.txt", "wb") > > out_file.write(in_file.read()) > > in_file.close() > > out_file.close() > > EXCELLENT! Thanks. > > THis works however there is one more tiny hiccup. The text has lost > all significant indention and newlines. Was this intended or is this a > result of another bug? Nevermind. Notepad was the problem. After using a real editor the text is displayed correctly! Thanks for help everyone! PS: I wonder why no one has added a note to the Python-list archives to advise people about the bug? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
