memory error with zipfile module

[Sion Arrowsmith]

Hari Sekhon  <sekhon.hari at googlemail.com> wrote:
>import zipfile
>zip=zipfile.ZipFile('d:\somepath\cdimage.zip')
>zip.namelist()
>['someimage.iso']
 [ ... ]
>B)   content=zip.read('someimage.iso')
>
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>  File "D:\u\Python24\lib\zipfile.py", line 357, in read
>    bytes = dc.decompress(bytes)
>MemoryError
>
>I thought python was supposed to handle memory for you?

Yes, but it can't handle more memory than the operating system
is prepared to give it. How big is cdimage.zip? How big is the
uncompressed someimage.iso? How much memory do you have?

>The python zipfile module is obviously broken...

This isn't at all obvious to me.

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