zlib problems with Python 2.0

[Andrew MacIntyre]

On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Andrew MacIntyre wrote:

> [posted & mailed]
> On 19 Aug 2001, Peter van der Kamp wrote:
>
> > Working with the zlib module under Python 2.0, OS/2 Warp 4,
>
> Which port/build?
>
> > I encounter the following error: unknown compression method.
>
> {...}
>
> Without seeing the original code, its hard to tell.  Your pseudocode
> doesn't indicate how you're recording the position/length of the
> compressed chunks.  I would guess that something isn't correct about this
> part of your script, but that it gets it right for the first couple of
> chunks - unless you've checked that the retrieved chunk is identical to
> the chunk written.

Another thought just occurred to me - you should be opening the files in
binary mode: 'wb' for write and 'rb' for read.

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