Mailing List Archive: pkzip and using popen on Windows 98 ???

pkzip and using popen on Windows 98 ???

Jun 23, 1999, 1:25 AM

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Im having trouble using os.system or popen (both win32pipe & os) under
windows 98. It will not return the exit value of the command Im running
(which is infozips - zip). Also when attempting to use win32pipe.popen3 -
my pipe read's hang after one or two reads.

Also does anyone know of any python modules which can read / write pkzip (or
infozip) format files as I don't like calling external commands.

Any help would be appreciated?

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billtut at microsoft

Jun 24, 1999, 7:27 PM

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There was a bug in Win95 that prevents win32pipe from working. KB: Q150956
The same problem may not have been fixed in Windows 98. I don't have a local
Win98 box to test it on.

The current URL for this information is:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q150/9/56.asp

I also just added this using Guido's cool FAQ wizard..
Maybe I won't have to keep digging the KB article up anymore. :)

Bill

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holger at phoenix-edv

Jun 25, 1999, 2:35 AM

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High Mark!

Mark Butterworth - U-Net schrieb:
>
> Im having trouble using os.system or popen (both win32pipe & os) under
> windows 98. It will not return the exit value of the command Im running
> (which is infozips - zip). Also when attempting to use win32pipe.popen3 -
> my pipe read's hang after one or two reads.
>
> Also does anyone know of any python modules which can read / write pkzip (or
> infozip) format files as I don't like calling external commands.
>
> Any help would be appreciated?

Tested module GZIP?

f = gzip.GzipFile(fromPath , 'rb')
var = f.read()
f.close()
writeFile(toPath, var)

..works fine for unzipping file.

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mark.butterworth at cis

Jun 25, 1999, 6:21 AM

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>
>Tested module GZIP?
>
>f = gzip.GzipFile(fromPath , 'rb')
>var = f.read()
>f.close()
>writeFile(toPath, var)
>
>..works fine for unzipping file.

Yes but gzip only works with single files, the existing data I need to
manipulate is stored in pkzipped files with a password! therefore I need
full pkzip format support.