Tomeu,
The zipfile.is_zipfile(filename) method solved my problem. I was able
to successfully share a Zip file between two computers running my
activity. Still some kinks to iron out, though. I'll keep your
suggestion in mind for the future.
Thanks,
James Simmons
Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
O
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 11:08 PM, James Simmons
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Tomeu and Michael,
>
> It turns out Python has a method you can pass a filename to and it will
> identify if the file is a Zip file or not, based on the "magic number", not
> the filename. It seems to do the trick.
A
Tomeu and Michael,
It turns out Python has a method you can pass a filename to and it will
identify if the file is a Zip file or not, based on the "magic number",
not the filename. It seems to do the trick.
Thanks,
James Simmons
Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 9:43 PM, Michae
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 9:43 PM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 09:18:05AM -0500, James Simmons wrote:
> > how can I tell what kind of file I am receiving when
> > someone shares a file with me?
>
> You might examine python's mimetypes module or the 'file' com
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 09:18:05AM -0500, James Simmons wrote:
> how can I tell what kind of file I am receiving when
> someone shares a file with me?
You might examine python's mimetypes module or the 'file' command.
Michael
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I am working on adding sharing code to the Read Etexts activity, mostly
adapting existing code from the core Read activity. Read ETexts can
open ascii text files and zip files that contain a single text file. I
look at the suffix of the filename to tell what kind of file I'm dealing
with. Th
