On Mon, 2 May 2005 23:11:54 +0530, rumours say that km <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> might have written:
>Hi all, > >This was posted long ago. >I tried to compress a mp3 file but i couldnt get the keycode+".out" file >which is of size 1 bit. instead it is printed to STDOUT. i am usng python 2.4 >. i understand that the keycode is embedded in the filename itself. Is it a >problem with python not able to create a file with such a big filename ? >any workarounds ? Ah... Perhaps your humour is too subtle for me, in which case my reply is totally off. In any case: Python does not restrict filename lengths; it happily creates filenames of length less than or equal to the limit imposed by the underlying operating system. Now, in our universe there cannot be a compression algorithm that reduces entropy and file size at the same time. The code was a joke (I even suggested a correction, which was a mistake because I hadn't understood the full joke[1] :) [snip effbot's code] [1] I thought that Fredrik just made up something that looked like working, and he explained that his code *was* working. -- TZOTZIOY, I speak England very best. "Be strict when sending and tolerant when receiving." (from RFC1958) I really should keep that in mind when talking with people, actually... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list