[issue10900] bz2 module fails to uncompress large files

[Eric Wolf]

Eric Wolf <ebwolf at gmail.com> added the comment:

The only problem with the theory that the file is corrupt is that at least three people have encountered exactly the same problem with three files:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/2010-June/076343.html

Colin was using an OSM planet file from some time last year and it quit at exactly 900000 bytes.

I'm trying bzip2 -t on the file to see if it reports any problems. These things take time... the bzcat to /dev/null still hasn't completed.

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