[issue10900] bz2 module fails to uncompress large files

Charles-Francois Natali report at bugs.python.org
Wed Mar 2 07:35:24 CET 2011


Charles-Francois Natali <neologix at free.fr> added the comment:

> Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:
>
> Perhaps your bz2 files are simply multi-stream files? The bz2 module
> currently doesn't support them (it only decompresses the first stream); see
> issue1625 for a patch.

That explains why it was seeing an end-of-stream so early...
Thanks for the explanation, I didn't know about multi-stream bzip2.

Charles

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title: bz2 module fails to multi-stream files completely -> bz2 module fails to uncompress large files

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