error: Error -5 while decompressing data from struct.unpack

[Fredrik Lundh]

Gary Robinson wrote:

> One of our users received an exception, "error: Error -5 while 
> decompressing data from struct.unpack," in the course of a 
> struct.unpack operation. I haven't been able to discern what Error -5 
> is in this context. In experiments here I wasn't able to elicit that 
> exception.
> 
> There's a system exception EINTR which is 5 -- but that's 5, not -5.
> 
> Any help on this would be most appreciated.

from what I can tell, the word "decompressing" is only used in the zlib 
sources in Python.  are you sure the user didn't mean "zlib.decompress" 
instead of "struct.unpack" ?

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