Lenard Lindstrom wrote: > Which file type is out of your control, the .bmp image format or the > gzip compression.
Both unfortunately. > Got it. GzipFile.seek() has no optional whence argument. > pygame.image.load calls seek() with both an offset and whence, but > does not pass on the exception raised by GzipFile.seek(). Thanks for looking into this. I presume this means that if if the bug you're spotted was fixed, I'd still not be able to use the GzipFile stream. > 2) Read the gzip file into a string and use StringIO to pass the > string to pygame.image.load(). I did try something like that then, thanks again. Paul