Reading a large bz2 textfile exits early

Norman Rieß norman at smash-net.org
Mon Feb 22 03:43:17 EST 2010


Am 02/22/10 09:02, schrieb Steven D'Aprano:
> On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:49:51 +0100, Norman Rieß wrote:
>
>    
>> This is the actual code:
>>
>> source_file = bz2.BZ2File(file, "r")
>> for line in source_file:
>>       print line.strip()
>>
>> print "Exiting"
>> print "I used file: " + file
>>      
>
> Have you verified that the bz file is good by opening it in another
> application?
>
>
>
>    

Yes, bzcat is running through the file fine. And piping bzcat output 
into the python script reading stdin works fine, too.



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