[issue10040] GZipFile failure on large files
Robert Rohde
report at bugs.python.org
Thu Oct 7 03:57:13 CEST 2010
New submission from Robert Rohde <rohde at robertrohde.com>:
I attempted to use GZipFile to process a 1.93 GB file that expands to 18.8 GB.
This consistently produces the same corrupted output file that has approximately, but not exactly, the right output file size.
I bypassed GZipFile by calling the 7-Zip executable to open the compressed file. This works correctly and consistently.
I haven't tried to figure out how GZipFile works, but I assume that this failure is probably related to the very large size of the files I am working with. I've used GZipFile before on much smaller files with no apparent problems. I have no idea what precisely goes wrong, or how to fix it, but I felt it was important to note that GZipFile isn't working for at least some very large files.
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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 118091
nosy: Robert.Rohde
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: GZipFile failure on large files
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7
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