Unpythonic Python

[David Abrahams]

Thomas Heller <theller at python.net> wrote in message news:<zn4lvsib.fsf at python.net>...
> dave at boost-consulting.com (David Abrahams) writes:
> 
> > I started having some weird problems with Python recently; they're so
> > weird that I can't begin to explain them.  All I can do is describe
> > the symptoms and hope someone else has a clue.  So here goes:
> >
> > FreeBSD 4.2, Python 2.2.2. 
> >  
> > I have a nightly cron job that downloads the boost cvs tarball from
> > SourceForge and bunzip2s it.  For about a year everything worked with
> > no problems. About a month ago the download started getting truncated
> > with no error reported.
> 
> There were some problems with anonymous CVS on sourceforge, which also
> affected the nightly CVS tarballs.  Can it have to do with this?
> I also had problems downloading the CVS tarball for ctypes - but it
> seems now repaired.
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=2352&group_id=1#1093021394

That's not the problem.  I can download the file reliably from other machines.

> >   Then bunzip2 reports corruption, of course.
> Maybe you don't get a bz2 file, but a HTML error message instead?

No, it's a truncated bz2.  I can use bzip2recover and get some of the contents back.

Thanks, though.
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Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
http://www.boost-consulting.com