Thu, 21 May 2009 12:14:18 -0600, Michael Hearne wrote:
> All: Never mind! The file I was attempting to read was part of an
> (apparently) silently incomplete download, and as such, the file size
> didn't match the metadata in the header file describing the data file,
> and I was reading beyond the end of the file.
>
> I would submit that MemoryError is perhaps a little misleading for this
> particular case, but oh well.
Well, that it raises MemoryError in this case is a bug, so maybe a ticket
should be filed.
There's another bug associated with reading empty files:
http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/ticket/1115
which is maybe related.
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Pauli Virtanen
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