memory error with zipfile module

[bruno at modulix]

Sion Arrowsmith wrote:
> Hari Sekhon  <sekhon.hari at googlemail.com> wrote:
(snip)
>>The python zipfile module is obviously broken...
> 
> This isn't at all obvious to me.

zipfile.read() does not seem to take full advantage of zlib's
decompressobj's features. This could perhaps be improved (left as an
exercice to the OP, who is obviously very good at detecting broken
memory management <g>).

Also, there's a known bug with file headers beginning past 2+GB - which
is not a very common case...
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1189216&group_id=5470&atid=105470

So yes, there is actually something broken - but this has nothing to do
with the OP problem - *and* there are actually some limitions (FWIW, the
main goal of zipfile was mostly to implement support for zipped python
packages, not to replace Winzip). But what, the OP is going to fix this,
isn't he ?-)


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