Windows gzip problem

[John Earls]

On Feb 28, 6:57 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-... at yahoo.com.ar>
wrote:
> En Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:09:30 -0200, John Earls <yt.r... at gmail.com>
> escribió:
>
>
>
> > I am having a problem with gzip.  The code worked fine under linux but
> > when I moved it over to windows it is getting stuck unzipping a gz
> > file.
>
> > -- snippet --
>
> >         fileObj = gzip.GzipFile(iceGetter.file.localFileName, 'rb')
> >         uncompressedFileName = iceGetter.file.localFileName[:-3]
> >         output = open(uncompressedFileName, 'wb')
> >         output.write(fileObj.read())
> >         output.close()
> >         fileObj.close()
>
> > -- snippet --
>
> > typing "python autoIce.py" gets this error:
> > --error--
> > Traceback(most recent call last):
> >   File "runAuto.py", line 17 in ?
> >     output.write(fileObj.read())
> >   File "C:\Python24\lib\gzip.py". line 217 in read
> > self._read(readsize)
> >   File "C:\Python24\lib\gzip.py", line 276 in _read
> >     uncompress.decompress.decompress(buf)
> >    Memory Error
>
>  Is the uncompressed file big? Instead of output.write(fileObj.read())
> --that reads the whole contents in memory-- try
> shutil.copyfileobj(fileObj, output)
>
> --
> Gabriel Genellina

That worked perfectly.

Thank you so much.