Am 19.02.2010 22:24, schrieb Lie Ryan: > On 02/20/10 07:49, Norman Rieß wrote: > >> Am 19.02.2010 21:42, schrieb Lie Ryan: >> >>> On 02/19/10 23:42, Norman Rieß wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> i am trying to read a large bz2 file with this code: >>>> >>>> source_file = bz2.BZ2File(file, "r") >>>> for line in source_file: >>>> print line.strip() >>>> >>>> But after 4311 lines, it stoppes without a errormessage. The bz2 file is >>>> much bigger though. >>>> How can i read the whole file line by line? >>>> >>>> >>> Is the bz2 file an archive[1]? >>> >>> [1] archive: contains more than one file >>> >>> >> No it is a single file. But how could i check for sure? Its extracts to >> a single file... >> > use "bzip2 -dc" or "bunzip2" instead of "bzcat" since bzcat concatenates > its output file to a single file. > > >
Yes, it is a single file. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor