[python-win32] Invalid or corrupted installer...

[Paul Moore]

2008/9/23 Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk>:
> Andrea Gavana wrote:
> ... No explanation was provided for the reason of the
>>
>> corrupted download (!)
>
>
> There used to be a general warning on sites which offered
> tgz for download that IE would do something weird with them.
> I never experienced the problem myself, and in any case that
> was years (and versions) ago so I assumed that whatever it
> was had been fixed long before. Maybe not...

Sorry, that was meant to go to the list:

What tends to happen is that something decides to automatically
uncompress, or "fix" the name, so you end up with a .tgz file which
actually only contains .tar data, or a .tar file which is gzipped as
well.

Renaming the file usually fixes this for me.

Paul