Matthew Brett <matthew.br...@gmail.com> added the comment: >> Thanks for the debugging. The stream comes from within a matlab 'mat' >> file. I maintain the scipy matlab file readers; the variables within >> these files are zlib compressed streams. > > So this would be a Matlab issue, right?
Yes, except scipy and numpy aim in part to be an open-source replacement for matlab, so we very much want to be able to read their files. >> Is there (should there be) a safe and maintained way to allow me to >> read a stream that does not return Z_STREAM_END? > > Decompressor objects allow you to do that, but I cannot tell you how > "maintained" it is. If it has to be maintained, we could add an unit > test for it so that regressions get detected. It would be nice if you > could provide a very short zlib stream reproducing the issue This is the only .mat file stream I have yet come across that causes the error. It is possible to knock a portion off the end of a valid stream to reproduce the problem? ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8672> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
