memory error with zipfile module

[Ganesan Rajagopal]

>>>>> Hari Sekhon <sekhon.hari at googlemail.com> writes:

> 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

Looks like the .iso file is huge. Even if it's only a CD image (approx
650MB), reading it all into memory in a single string is not a good idea.

> The python zipfile module is obviously broken...

Indeed. I am surprised that there is no API that returns a file object.

Ganesan
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