CRC-checksum failed in gzip

[Laszlo Nagy]

On 2012-08-01 12:39, andrea crotti wrote:
> We're having some really obscure problems with gzip.
> There is a program running with python2.7 on a 2.6.18-128.el5xen (red
> hat I think) kernel.
>
> Now this program does the following:
> if filename == 'out2.txt':
>       out2 = open('out2.txt')
> elif filename == 'out2.txt.gz'
>       out2 = open('out2.txt.gz')
Gzip file is binary. You should open it in binary mode.

out2 = open('out2.txt.gz',"b")

Otherwise carriage return and newline characters will be converted (depending on the platform).