using python with tar files and compressed files

[John Salerno]

enigmadude at rock.com wrote:
> This syntax works on other bzipped tar files. But it's not unheard of
> that large tarballs will get corrupted from a download mirror. Use a
> download manager and try redownloading the file. Usually a mirror will
> include an md5sum text file so that you can compare the checksum to
> your downloaded file to verify its integrity. For some reason, the
> wxPython site doesn't have them.

Well, unless the file was updated between my problem and when I got 
home, then perhaps it was my system. Because I tried it again on Linux 
and it worked as expected.