On 02/22/10 19:43, Norman Rieß wrote: > Am 02/22/10 09:02, schrieb Steven D'Aprano: >> On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:49:51 +0100, Norman Rieß wrote: >> >> >>> This is the actual code: >>> >>> source_file = bz2.BZ2File(file, "r") >>> for line in source_file: >>> print line.strip() >>> >>> print "Exiting" >>> print "I used file: " + file >>> >> >> Have you verified that the bz file is good by opening it in another >> application? >> >> >> >> > > Yes, bzcat is running through the file fine. And piping bzcat output > into the python script reading stdin works fine, too.
test with using something other than bzcat; bzcat does certain things differently because of the way it works (a cat for bzipped file). Try using plain "bunzip2 filename.bz2" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
