Elric02 wrote: """ I'm currently trying to get access to the Python source code, however whenever I try to extract the files using the latest version of WinZip (version 10) I get the following error "error reading however after processing 0 entries """
I've managed to reproduce this behaviour: 1. Browser = Firefox 2. go to www.python.org 3. click on quick links / source code [on the left side of the home page] 4. Firefox pops up a box which says 'You have chosen to download blahblah.tar.bz2 which is a: WinZip File". [It is is gravely mistaken]. 5. The default presented is "open" (as opposed to save to disk). 6. If you click on OK, you get "Error reading header [not 'however'!!] after 0 entries." In defense/mitigation of FireFox: IE is equally mistaken at step 4. At step 6, it doesn't complain but starts off downloading [painfully slowly]. I didn't wait around to find out what sort of error message ensued. So: (1) like I said in an earlier post, go for the .tgz file -- look for the line gzip-compressed source code: python-2.4.3.tgz on the home page (2) download the file, don't open archives online, even from trusted sources like python.org (3) understand that WinZip *does* handle .tar, .gz, .tar.gz, and .tgz files. It doesn't handle .bz2 files. (4) When asking a question, try stating what you have been doing, with some precision -- like in this case, *WHICH* archive and *HOW* ... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
