[Python-Dev] zipfile.py and InfoZIP files

[M.-A. Lemburg]

"James C. Ahlstrom" wrote:
> 
> "M.-A. Lemburg" wrote:
> 
> > Now I get this error after working in interactive Python
> > mode with zipfile:
> >
> > Exception exceptions.AttributeError:
> > "ZipFile instance has no attribute 'fp'" in <method ZipFile.__del__ of ZipFile instance at 0x824524c> ignored
> 
> Reading the code, I don't see how this could have happened
> unless __init__ has already raised an exception.

Probably has something to do with GC and cleaning up instances --
don't know. The error only shows up sometimes...

Instead of seeing the __del__ exception I now get the previous error
again:
zlib.error: Error -3 while decompressing: incomplete dynamic bit lengths tree

Nevermind... my setup must be broken in more way than I have
time to figure out now :-(
 
> > I would like a method .copy(self, name, output) which
> > reads the file name from the ZIP archive and writes it directly to
> > the file-like object output. This should copy the file in chunks
> > of say 64kB in order to reduce memory load.
> 
> This is only a few lines of Python, and I generally omit
> any methods which are not absoultely necessary.  Does
> anyone else think this should be added?

Thanks,
-- 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
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