Re: Pytz error: unpack requires a string argument of length 44

2012-06-13 Thread bringa
Thanks Terry! There indeed seems to be something wrong with my installation of pytz. I had a look around the zoneinfo dir, which is where build_tzinfo polls its info from, and a whole bunch of files are 0 bytes. Whenever I try to instantiate a timezone whose corresponding file is 0 bytes I get

Pytz error: unpack requires a string argument of length 44

2012-06-13 Thread bringa
Hi! I'm trying to get a handle on pytz (http://pytz.sourceforge.net/). I don't have root on the system I'll be running my script on, so I need to go for a local installation. I copied pytz into a folder in my sys.path and am importing from there. That part seems to work. I downloaded the tarbal