On Jan 10, 5:32 am, Scott David Daniels <scott.dani...@acm.org> wrote: > webcomm wrote: > > .... I tried Scott's getzip() function yesterday... I > > stumbled upon it in my searches. It didn't seem to help in my case, > > though it did produce a different error: ValueError, substring not > > found. Not sure what that means. > > and in another message webcomm wrote: > > I ran the diagnostic gadget... > > > > archive size is 69888 > > FileHeader at 0 > > CentralDir at 43796 > > EndArchive at 43846 > > This is telling you that the archive ends at 43846,
Not quite. """In a "normal" uncommented archive, EndArchive_pos + 22 == archive_size.""" > but the file > is 69888 bytes long (69888 - 43846 = 26042 post-archive bytes). > Have you tried calling getzip(filename, ignoreable=30000)? > The whole point of the function is to ignore the nasty stuff at the > end, but if _I_ had a file with more than 25K of post-archive bytes, > I'd certainly try to figure out if the archive was mis-handled > somewhere along the way. Me too. Further, if I wasn't "ever diplomatic" :-), I wouldn't be calling software (or people!) that blithely ignored 25kb of unexplained data "forgiving" ... some other f-words, perhaps. > Byt the way, one reason you cannot find > the archive by looking at the start of the file is that the zip file > format is meant to allow you to append a zip file to another file (such > as an executable) and treat the combination as an archive. > > --Scott David Daniels > scott.dani...@acm.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list