Christopher Barker wrote:
> Jeff Whitaker wrote:
>> Chris: Here's a self-contained example of the problem (data file
>> attached):
>
> yup -- I get the same problem. Interesting, I thought it might be an
> issue with the 'U' flag creating a difference in byte offset, but
> that's a unix style file already, so it should make no difference
> anyway -- weird.
>
> Actually, what's probably happening is that the flags are getting
> passed in to how python is opening the gzip file itself, in which
> case, yes, 'U' would, or course, break things.
>
> In the MPL code, is the flag passed on through to either file() or
> gzip.open() that same way? What I'm getting at is whether it's easy to
> use 'U' with raw text files and not with gzipped files.
>
> In my grepping of the code (SVN head), I only see gzip.open being
> called "raw", either with no flags or 'wb', except in mlab.cbook, and
> I see you (or someone!) already patched that. However, I might suggest:
>
> flag = flag.replace('U','')
>
> instead of:
>
> if flag == 'rU': flag = 'r'
Chris: That's a good idea. Done (r6852).
-Jeff
>
> it case someone passes a U in some other way (not that I know of any
> other valid way...)
>
>
> Now I wonder if I can find the energy to submit a bug report to Python...
>
> -Chris
>
>
>
>
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