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Opening zipfile of unsupported compression-type silently returns empty filestream, instead of throwing exception Question: Seem to be knocking my head off a newbie error and I am not a newbie. I have a 1.2G known-good zipfile ‘train.zip’ containing a 3.5G file ‘train.csv’. I open the zipfile and file itself without any exceptions (no LargeZipFile), but …

Inexpensive ways to add seek to a filetype object Question: PdfFileReader reads the content from a pdf file to create an object. I am querying the pdf from a cdn via urllib.urlopen(), this provides me a file like object, which has no seek. PdfFileReader, however uses seek. What is the simple way to create a …