unzip problem

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Fri Jun 24 14:00:02 EDT 2011


Ahmed, Shakir wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  
> 
> I am getting following error message while unziping a .zip file. Any
> help or idea is highly appreciated.
> 
>  
> 
> Error message>>>
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> 
>   File "C:\Zip_Process\py\test2_new.py", line 15, in <module>
> 
>     outfile.write(z.read(name))
> 
> IOError: (22, 'Invalid argument')

I just dealt with this problem on my system -- only pops up when writing 
large files (just over 50Mb for me) to a network drive; no problems when 
writing to a local drive.

Here's how I get around it:

     CHUNK_SIZE = 10 * 1024 * 1024

     fn = open(uncompressed_file, 'wb')
     ptr = 0
     size = len(data)
     while ptr < size:
         fn.write(data[ptr:ptr+CHUNK_SIZE])
         ptr += CHUNK_SIZE
     fn.close()


~Ethan~



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