Copying a ZipExtFile

[Moore, Mathew L]

> On October 28, 2009 8:33 PM, "ryles" wrote:
>
<snip>
> >     with io.BytesIO() as memio:
> >         shutil.copyfileobj(f, memio)
> >         zip = zipfile.ZipFile(file=memio)
> >         # Can't use zip.extract(), because I want to ignore paths
> >         # within archive.
> >         src = zip.open('unknowndir/src.txt')
> >         with open('dst.txt', mode='wb') as dst:
> >             shutil.copyfileobj(src, dst)
> >
> > The last line throws an Error:
> >
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "test.py", line 25, in <module>
> >     shutil.copyfileobj(src, dst)
> >   File "C:\Python26\lib\shutil.py", line 27, in copyfileobj
> >     buf = fsrc.read(length)
> >   File "C:\Python26\lib\zipfile.py", line 594, in read
> >     bytes = self.fileobj.read(bytesToRead)
> > TypeError: integer argument expected, got 'long'
> 
> It should hopefully work if you use cStringIO/StringIO instead of
> BytesIO.
>

It does! Excellent!  You've saved me the trouble of a weekend debug session.

--Matt