Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote:

Are you sure that you are calling the newly-built python.exe? It is strange that the test should pass in interactive mode when it doesn't in normal mode.

For a confirmation, can you execute this piece of code both interactively and from a file:

Yes, both Python's tested are fresh from CVS. Here is the output of the test you asked I run #---------------------- # File: testbz2.py #---------------------- """ import os from bz2 import BZ2File data = 'BZh91AY&SY\xd9b\x89]\x00\x00\x00\x03\x80\x04\x00\x02\x00\x0c\x00 \x00!\x9ah3M\x13<]\xc9\x14\xe1BCe\x8a%t' f = open('test.bz2', "wb") f.write(data) f.close() bz2f = BZ2File('test.bz2') lines = bz2f.readlines() bz2f.close() assert lines == ['Test'] bz2f = BZ2File('test.bz2') xlines = list(bz2f.xreadlines()) bz2f.close() assert lines == ['Test'] os.unlink('test.bz2') """ ------------- RESULTS: ------------- #--------------------------- Python 2.5a0 from CVS -----------------# # Result: passes $ /g/projs/py25/python/dist/src/MinGW/python testbz2.py #--------------------------- Python 2.4.1 from CVS -----------------# # Result: fails $ /g/projs/py24/python/dist/src/MinGW/python testbz2.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "testbz2.py", line 9, in ? lines = bz2f.readlines() RuntimeError: wrong sequence of bz2 library commands used #--------------------------- Python 2.4.1 from CVS -----------------# # Interpreted session: testbz2 fails here as well now $ /g/projs/py24/python/dist/src/MinGW/python -i Python 2.4.1 (#65, Aug 26 2005, 14:38:48) [GCC 3.4.4 (mingw special)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

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import os from bz2 import BZ2File data = 'BZh91AY&SY\xd9b\x89]\x00\x00\x00\x03\x80\x04\x00\x02\x00\x0c\x00 \x0 0!\x9ah3M\x13<]\xc9\x14\xe1BCe\x8a%t' f = open('test.bz2', "wb") f.write(data) f.close() bz2f = BZ2File('test.bz2') lines = bz2f.readlines() Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? RuntimeError: wrong sequence of bz2 library commands used raise SystemExit

#--------------------------- Python 2.5a0 from CVS -----------------# # Interpreted session: testbz2 passes $ /g/projs/py25/python/dist/src/MinGW/python -i Python 2.5a0 (#65, Aug 26 2005, 14:57:28) [GCC 3.4.4 (mingw special)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

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import os from bz2 import BZ2File data = 'BZh91AY&SY\xd9b\x89]\x00\x00\x00\x03\x80\x04\x00\x02\x00\x0c\x00 \x0 0!\x9ah3M\x13<]\xc9\x14\xe1BCe\x8a%t' f = open('test.bz2', "wb") f.write(data) f.close() bz2f = BZ2File('test.bz2') lines = bz2f.readlines() bz2f.close() assert lines == ['Test'] bz2f = BZ2File('test.bz2') xlines = list(bz2f.xreadlines()) bz2f.close() assert lines == ['Test'] os.unlink('test.bz2') raise SystemExit

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