Martin Panter added the comment: I think you are only meant to pass in a “binary” (bytes) file object. Maybe BufferedIOBase, I’m not sure. The documentation doesn’t seem to make this very clear though. Can you suggest an improvement?
Open the file with a = open("testfile.zip", "rb") and all should be well :) ---------- nosy: +martin.panter _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue26272> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com