[Tutor] Reading large bz2 Files

[Norman Rieß]

Am 19.02.2010 21:42, schrieb Lie Ryan:
> On 02/19/10 23:42, Norman Rieß wrote:
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> i am trying to read a large bz2 file with this code:
>>
>> source_file = bz2.BZ2File(file, "r")
>> for line in source_file:
>>     print line.strip()
>>
>> But after 4311 lines, it stoppes without a errormessage. The bz2 file is
>> much bigger though.
>> How can i read the whole file line by line?
>>     
> Is the bz2 file an archive[1]?
>
> [1] archive: contains more than one file
>   

No it is a single file. But how could i check for sure? Its extracts to
a single file...